CHECKLIST OF CEPHALOCHORDATES, ^c.—OGILBY. 79 



Range : — Coasts and estuaries of Queensland from south to north, common. ^^ 



Subfamily c— CARCHARHININiE. " The Blue Sharks." 

 Genus 15— PHYSODON Miiller & Henle, Plagiost., 1841, p. 30 {millleri). 



20. mulleri Miiller & Henle. 



Ibid. : Bengal ; Giinther, Catal., viii, p. 360 ; Macleay, Catal., 1072 (as 

 Carcharias mulleri) — Garman, Plagiost., p. 108. 

 Figure : — Miiller & Henle, ibid., pi. xix, fig. 1 {dentition). 

 Dimensions : — No data. 



Range : — Coast of North Queensland. Cape York [Macleay). Specimen in 

 the University Museum, Sydney. 



21. taylori Ogilby. 



Mem. Queensl. Mus., iii, 1915, p. 117 : Townsville. 

 Unfigured. 



Dimensions : — Of type 657 miUim. 

 Range : — Coast of North Queensland. 

 Type : — In the Queensland Museum. Reg. No. I. 12/738. 



Genus 16— SCOLIODON Miiller & Henle, Arch. f. Nat., 1837, i, p. 397 



(laticaudus) . 



22. iordani Ogilby. 



Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl., xxi, 1909, p. 88 (adv. copy 25 Aug. 1908) : Cal- 

 oundra. 

 Unfinished. 



Dimensions : — Of type 850 miUim. 

 Range : — Coast of South Queensland. 

 Type : — Accidentally destroyed. 



23. affinis Ogilby. 



Mem. Queensl. Mus., i, 27 Nov. 1912, p. 29 ; Noosa Head. 

 Unfigured. 



Dimensions : — Of type 526 millim. 

 Range : — Coast of South Queensland. 



Type : — In the Queensland Museum, by favour of the Amateur Fishermen's 

 Association of Queensland. Reg. No. I. 13/1526. 



^° The most cunning and dangerous of all our sharks, lurking about wharves and similar 

 places, where they pick up an easy living through the refuse thrown overboard from the vessels 

 alongside, together with an occasional dog or other animal. When on board the " Endeavour" we 

 were witnesses to a remarkable instance of gluttony and its fitting reward. While a brace of snapper 

 was being hauled up a large shark of this species was observed to be accompanying them from the 

 bottom ; instead, however, of tearing them from the hook, as is the usual practice in such cases, it 

 contented itself with merely nosing them about, not even making any more vigorous protest when 

 they were finally lifted intact out of the water. As it persisted in continuing this form of 

 amusement with other captures, we threw out a shark hook nicely baited with fat pork, which it 

 soon found. Even this tempting morsel it only nosed and mumbled for several minutes before 

 taking it into its mouth so far as to enable us to effect its capture. When opened the secret of its 

 extraordinary behaviour was revealed, for it was found to be fvill actually to the gullet with large 

 leather-jackets {Cantherines ayraudi), of which it had already swallowed no less than 32, averaging 

 fully fifteen inches apiece, all of which were perfectly fresh, mibitten, and midigested. This shark 

 measured over 13 feet. 



