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Records of the S.A. Museum 



CARCHARINUS BRACHYURUS Giinther (Whaler). 



Carcharias hrachijiirus Giinlli., Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., viii, 1870, i). 869; Waite, 



Ree. Anst. Mus., vi, 1006, p. 226, pi. xxxix. 

 Carcharias mdcrurus Kanis. & Oo'i]., P.L.S.. X.S.W. (2) ii, 1S8S, p. 163. 



Fio'. 8. CiirclKiriiiH.s hrachyurus. 



The name "Whaler" is said to have hi'<m bestowed l)y the whale fishers of 

 Tw^ofold Bay, N.S.W., from the cirenmstam-e that it is this shark that usually 

 appears during- the whaling operations there carried on. 



HYPOPRION Miiiler & Henle, 1838 (macloti). 



HYPOPRION HEMIODON Miiiler & Henle. 



Carcharias hemiodon Midi. & Henle, Plag'iost., 1838, p. 35, p\. xix fteeth) ; A. 

 Zietz, T.R.S., S.A., x, 1888, p. 303. 



Fig. 9. Hi/poprinii macloti. 



The figure is of Hypoprion Diaclofi, an allied species, the type of the genus. 



PRIONACE Cantor, 1849 (glauca). 



PRIONACE GLAUCUM Linnaeus (Blue Shark). 



Sqnalus glaiicus, Linn., Syst. Nat. (ed. x), 1708, p. 235. 



Frionace glauca Jord. & Everm., Bull. -17, TT.S. Nat. Mus., i, 1896, p. 33 and iv, 

 1900, pi. iv, fig. 16. 



