80 MEMOIBS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



24. acutus Riippell. 



Neue Wirbelth. Abyss., Fisch., 1837, p. 65 : Red Sea ; Giinther, Catal., 

 viii, p. 358 ; Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, xiii, p. 1766 (as 

 Carcharias acutus) — Garman, plagiost. p. Ill (as S. palasorrah). 

 Figure : — Day, Fish. India, pi. 188, fig. 2. 



Dimensions : — To at least 750 milUm. Said to attain a considerable size (Day). 

 Range : — Coast of Queensland, south to the Burnett River Heads, S.Q. {Ogilby). 

 Specimen in the AustraUan Museum, Sydney, 



25. longmani Ogilby. 



Mem. Queensl. Mus., i, 27 Nov. 1912, p. 30 : Moreton Bay, S.Q. 

 Un figured. 



Dimensions : — Of type 526 milHm. 

 Range : — Coast of S. Queensland. 

 Type : — In the Queensland Museum. Reg. No. I. 12/292. 



Genus 17 — Aprionodon Gill, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vii, 1861, p. 411 

 {punctatus=isodon). Syn. — Aprion Miiller & Henle 1841 ; not of 

 Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830. 



26. acutidens Riippell. 



Neue Wirbelth. Abyss., Fisch., 1837, p. 65 ; Giinther, Catal., viii, p. 361 ; 

 Macleay, Catal., 1071 (as Carcliarias acutidens) — Garman, Plagiost., 

 p. 118.' 

 Figure : — Riippell, ibid., pi. 18, fig. 3. 

 Dimensions : — To at least 183 cm. (Day). 



Range : — Coast of North Queensland. Torres Strait {Macleay). Specimen in 

 the University Museum, Sydney. 



Genus 18— RHIZOPRION Ogilby, Mem. Queensl. Mus., iii, 1915, p. 132 



{crenidens). 



27. crenidens Klunzinger. 



Sitz. Akad. Wien, Ixxx, 1879, i, p. 426 : Coast of Queensland ; Macleay, 

 Catal., 1284 (as Carcharias crenidens). 

 Figure : — Klunzinger, ibid., pl. 8, fig. 3 {dentition). 

 Dimensions :- — To at least 850 miUim. 



Range : — Coast of South Queensland. Moreton Bay {Ogilby). Cajje Moreton, 

 73 fath.; Double Island Point, 33 fath., 29 spec. ; Rocky Island Reef {Endeavour 

 Coll.).^"- 



Genus 19— CARCHARHINUS Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom., 1816, p. 121 

 {commersonii) . Syn. — Carcharias Cuvier 1817, not of Rafinesque 1810 

 (q.v., p. 73). 



28. stevensi Ogilby. 



Ann. Queensl. Mus., No. 10, 1 Nov. 1911, p. 38 : Bustard Bay. 

 Un figured. 



Dimensions : — To about 2 mm. 



Range : — Coasts of South and Middle Queensland. Bustard Bav, S.Q. and 

 No r- West Islet, M.Q. {Ogilby).'-'- 



*^ This is the most coramon of the smaller galeids on our southern coast, and has the right 

 to inclusion in the New South Wales fauna, the " Endeavour " having trawled a specimen off 

 Cape Byron. 



^2 In the original description the lengths of the specimens examined are given as 164 and 187 

 millim. This should read " cm." 



