8 Mindeskrift for J. Steenstrup. XXX. 



of Sukkertoppen and Holsteinsborg, wliore other southern species roam about in the 

 summer time (halibut, cod). 



General Distribution. The Picked Dogfish has a very wide distribution. On 

 the western side of the Atlantic it is of common occurrence on the northern and 

 middle coasts of the United States and is met with as far south as Cuba. On the 

 European side it reaches from the Murman Coast to the Mediterranean, westward 

 over the Fseroes to Iceland. In the southern hemisphere it is known from South 

 Africa, Mauritius, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Patagonia and Chili. In the 

 Pacific, further, it is known from Hawaii, China, .lapan and the west-coast of North- 

 America, southward to California'). 



iSomuiosus niicrocephalus Bloch-Schneider. 



(S(iiiuhis carcharias Fabricius (non Linne) Fauna Groenl., 1780, p. 127). 



English: The Greenland Shark. 



Danish : Havkal. 



Greenlandic: Ekalugssiiak. 



West Greenland. The Greenland Shark — or Shark, as it is simply called by 

 the Danish in Greenland — was taken on lines (sometimes in the trawl and with hand- 

 lines) at the following places during the "Tjalfe" Ex|)edition of 1908 — 09: Nuk inside 

 llua, 120— 180 fm.: the fjdid north of llua, 80— .'HOfm.; Tasermiut, outer part, 180— 

 250 fm.; Agdluitsok, at the mouth, nlT Lichtenau and in at Niiluk. 150 — 260 fm.: off 

 Julianehaab harbour, 120 — 170 fm.; Tunugdliarhk from the mouth inwards to off .\ug- 

 arsuk, 60 — 200 fm.; Bredefjord with Kangerdluarsuk, 100 — 300 fm.; Kvanefjord S. of 

 Frederikshaab, 100 — 200 I'm.; Godthaabsfjord (near Siorarsiorfik, .SO — 40 fm.; between 

 Hundeo and .Ny Hernhut, 80 — 90 fm.); between Godthaabsfjord and Fyllas Bank, 70 

 fm. ; 2 miles W. of Store Vardeo at, Holsteinsborg, 40—30 fm. ; 66°41' N., 56°24' W., 

 178— 164 fm.; 66°45' N., 56°23'W., ca. 175 fm.; 66°49' N., 56°40'— 56°38' W., 144—154 

 fm. ; off the south-east coast of Disko, 95 — 193 fm. ; north-west end of Jakobshavn Ice- 

 berg Bank, 141 fm.; off Norde at Ritenbenk, 110 I'm.; Torsukatak Isl'jord at Kekertak, 

 160 fm.; Umanakfjord, a little S. of the colony, 100— 380 fm. and off the norlh-west 

 point of Talerok Island, 140 fm. 



These captures alone .show, that the Greenland Shark is common from the south 

 point up to Umanakfjord, in the fjords, on the sea coast and a good way out in the Davis 

 Strait. According to information from local authorities, the shark also occurs further 



') The S|)ecies is hen' taken as it has been given by Gi nther (Cataj, of Fishes, VIII, 1870, 

 p. 418). C. T. Regan has again (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), 2, 19U8, p. 46-48) separated tlie 

 forms from the .souttiern iieniispliere and from the Pacific as (6) distinct species, so that only the 

 following distribution is indicated for Squalus aeanthias: ".\tlantic coasts of Enrope and North 

 America, southward to the Mediterranean and to Cuba". 



