74 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Family II— ALOPIID^. " The Fox Sharks." 



Genus 2 — ALOPIAS Rafinesque, Caratt. ale. nuov. Gen., 1810, p. 12 {macrourus = 

 vulpinus). Syn. — Alopecias Miiller & Henle 1837 ; Vulpecula Garman 

 1913. 



2. vulpinus Bonnaterre. " Thresher." Fox Shark. Long-tailed Shark. 



Encyel. Meth., Ichth., 1788, p. 9 : "La Mediterranee" (as Squalus vulpinus) 

 — Giinther, CataL, viii, p. 393 ; Macleay, Catal., 1085 (as Alopecias 

 vulpes) — Garman, Plagiost., p. 30 (as Vulpecula marina). 

 Figures : — McCoy, Prodr., pi. 88 (as Alopecias vulpes) — Garman, ibid., pi. 7, 

 fig. 1. 



Dimensions : — To at least 4-5 mm. 

 Range : — Coast of South Queensland.^" 



Family III— ISURID^. The " Porbeagles" or Mackerel Sharks. 

 Subfamily «— ISURIN^. 



Genus 3 — ISURUS Rafinesque, Caratt. ale. nuov. Gen., 1810, p. 12 {oxy- 



rhynchus). Syn. — Oxyrhina MiiUer & Henle 1837 ; Isuropsis GiU 1861. 



3. glaucus MuUer & Henle. " Blue Pointer." 



Plagiost., 1841, p. 69 (as Oxyrhina glauca) — Giinther, CataL, xaii, p. 391 ; 

 Macleay, CataL, 1082 (as Lamna glauca) — Garman, Plagiost., p. 38. 

 Figure :— Miiller & Henle, ibid., pi. 29. 

 Dimensions : — To at least 3-66 mm. 

 Range : — Coast of South Queensland, rare.'^^ 



Subfamily 6— CARCHARODONTIN^. 



Genus 4— CARCHARODON Miiller & Henle, Charlesworth Mag. Nat. Hist., ii^ 

 1838, p. 37 {rondeletii = carcharias). 



4. carcharias Linnaeus. " White Pointer." Great White Shark ; Maneater. 



Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, p. 235 : " in Europa" (as Squalus carclmrias) — 



Giinther, CataL, viii, p. 392 ; Macleaj^ CataL, 1083 (as C. rondeletii) — 



Garman, Plagiost., p. 32. 



Figures :■ — ^McCoy, Prodr., pi. 74 (as C rondeletii) — Garman, ibid., pi. v, fig. 1, 



Dimensions : — Normally to between 3 and 4 mm. Occasionally, however,, 



examples of much larger size are recorded, such, for instance, as one noticed by 



Giinther^^ as having been caught many years ago at Port Fairy, Victoria, the jaws 



of which are now in the British Museum, and which had attained the enormous 



length of over lO/mm. (36-5 feet). " Forty feet and more" {Garman). 



^°The species has not, so far as I am aware, ever been captured in Queensland waters,, 

 but it has been seen so often at close quarters as to preclude its omission from this list. Only a 

 short time ago Messrs. Welsby and Appel, both gentlemen of wide experience, had a most inter- 

 esting view of a combat in Moreton Bay between a pair of these sharks and a whale, the object 

 of the attack being a very young calf which was accompanying the latter. So intent were the 

 marauders on their nefarious design that they allowed the steamer to steal up within its own length 

 of them before they sheered off into deeper water, thus permitting all on board to obtain a fvill 

 and close view of both sharks and whales. On the occasion of the visit of the ill-fated "Endeavour" 

 to this State during the winter of 1910 these sharks were seen on several occasions. I take this 

 opportunity of recording my appreciation of the scientific value of the work done by that vessel, 

 and my profound regret at the sad disaster which has befallen her officers and crew. 



^^ This species is inckided on the evidence of a pair of jaws taken from a " small blue shark," 

 caught at Bvilwer, Moreton Bay. I know of no other Axistralian shark to which the jaws could belong, 

 as the absence of denticles debars Carcharias. 



12 Study of Fishes, p. 321, text -fig. 114 (a tooth). 



