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A Chain dogfish (Sctjliorhinus retifer) . 



Courtesy, The Sears Foundation for Marine Research from 

 Fishes of the Western North Atlantic by Henry B. Bigelow and WiUiam C. Schroeder, 1948 



waters {Scyliorhimis retifer Garman, 1881), is the "Chain dogfish," so 

 called because its body is criss-crossed by narrow dark stripes which 

 give it the appearance of being wrapped in chains. 5. retifer, which 

 grows to about 2^ feet, is found at or near the bottom along the con- 

 tinental shelf from Cape Lookout, North Carolina, to northern New 

 Jersey. Like all other known members of the Scyliorhinidae family, it is 

 oviparous. Its brownish-amber egg cases are about 2 inches long. 



What the Britons call the Lesser Spotted dogfish is Scyliorhimis ca?ii- 

 culus Linnaeus, 1758. The Britons' Large Spotted dogfish is Scyliorhimis 

 stellaris Linnaeus, 1758. Both are found in the European Atlantic and the 

 Mediterranean. 



Three sharks, distinctive because of their peculiariyes, s^re also mem- 

 bers of this family: the Swell shark {Cephaloscy Ilium utef), relatively 



i ne swell shark (Cephaloscyllium uter). 



Courtesy, California Bureau of Marine Fisheries 



