82 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Subgenus y— PLATYSQUALUS Swainson, Classif. Fish., ii, 1839, p. 318 {tudes). 



34. tudes (Cuvier MS). 



Valenciennes, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat., ix, 1822, p. 225 ; Giinther, Catal., viii, 

 p. 332 (as Zygcena tudes) — Ogilby, Ann. Queensl, Mus., No. 9, p. 4 (as 

 Sphyrna tudes) — Garman, Plagiost., p. 159. 



Figure : — Day, Fish. India, pi. 188, fig. 4. 



Dimensions : — To at least 3-33 mm. 



Range : — Coasts and estuaries of Queensland, presumably from south to 

 north. Tweed Heads, Moreton Bay, Cabbage-tree Creek, and Brisbane River (Ogilby). 

 South Hill and Double Island Point— all ^.Q.— {Endeavour Coll.).-^ 



Division B— SQUALOIDEI. 



Family VII— HETERODONTID^. ' ' The Bullhead or Port Jackson 



Sharks." 



Genus 21— HETERODONTUS BlainviUe, Bull. Soc. Philom., 1816, p. 121 

 {phillipi). Syn. — Cestracion Cuvier 1817, not of Walbaum 1792 (q.v., 

 p. 81). 



35. phillipi Schneider. ^^ " Port Jackson Shark " ; Common Bullhead ; Low- 



crowned Bullhead. Oyster- crusher, Pigfish, and Bulldog Shark {Kent). 



In Bloch, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 134 : Botany Bay (as Squulus philippi) — • 



Giinther, Catal., viii, p. 415 (as Cestracion phillipi) — Maclay & Macleay, 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, iii, p. 309 — Garman, Plagiost., p. 182 



(as Centracion philippi). 



Figures : — Maclay & Macleay, ibid., pis. 22-24 ; McCoy, Prodr., pi. 113 ; Kent, 



Natur. in Austr., text-fig. p. 194. 



Dimensions : — ^To at least 140 cm. 



Range : — Coast of South Queensland. Moreton Bay {Kent.)~^ 



Genus 22— GYROPLEURODUS Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, p. 489 



{francisci). 



36. galeatus Giinther. " Crested Bullhead." 



Brit. Mus. Catal. Fish., viii, 1870, p. 416 : AustraUa (as Cestracion galeatus) — ■ 

 Maclay & Macleay, ibid., p. 313 (as Heterodontus galeatus) — Ogilby, Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, xx, p. 245, description of teeth (as Gyropleurodus 

 sp.) — Garman, Plagiost., p. 185 (as Centracion galeatus). 



2* This is much the most common hammierhead in Moreton Bay ; the young ascend our rivers 

 to the hmit of the tideway. 



-^ Orthographically corrected to assimilate it to the name of Governor Phillip, after whom 

 it was called. 



-* The only knowledge I possess of the occurrence of this shark in Queensland waters has been 

 gained through the following sentence pviblished on page 193 of Mr. Saville Kent's " Naturalist in 

 Australia." It " has been met with by the writer at such remote localities as Tasmania, Moreton 

 Bay in Queensland, and Fremantle in Western Australia." Relying probably upon this statement 

 Garman gives its habitat as " Queeiosland, Southern Australia, and New Zealand." In the seas 

 of the latter it docs not occur. It is quite imkiiown to me as a native of our seas, nor can I gain any 

 confirmative evidence of its existence from the conversation of prominent fishermen both profes- 

 sional and amateur. As there is no local specimen in the State Museum Kent did not apparently 

 consider it worth while to preserve his specimens. As a matter of fact I am very sceptical as to its 

 occurrence in Moreton Bay, but in view of the explicit declaration quoted above I can not very 

 well omit it. See also his " Great Barrier Reef," p. 267. 



