Waite — Fishes oe South Australl\ 



13 



(il((leiis g!<(i(cus (Jarni., Mom. Mus. Coiiip. Zool., xxxvi, li)18, p. 14"), pi. iii, fig. 1-3 



(«yii-)- 



Fig. 10. I'rionacc glaucum. 



Not ('C)ininou in Sontliern Australian waters, -but examples from South 

 Australia are jireserved in the Museum. 



GALEOCERDO Miiller cV: Henle, 1837 (arctieus). 



GALEOCERDO ARCTICUS Faber (Tiger Shark). 



IS(fuahis arcticKs Faber, Fiselier islands, 1829, ]). 17. 



Galeocerdo arctieus Miill. & Henle, Areh. f. Xaturg., iii, 1837, p. 308. 



Galcocerdo tigriuiis and G. arclicus Midi. & Henle, Plagiost., 1837, p. 59, 60, pi. 



xxiii, xxiy. 

 Galeocerdo raijueri Maedon. & Barr., P.Z.S., 1868, p. 368, pi. xxxii; Day, Fish. 



India, 1878, p. 718, pi. clxxxvii, fig. 3. 



Fig. 11. Galcocrrdu arctieus. 



■ Attains to a length of sixteen feet, and is said to be "the most cunning and 

 fei-ocious of all the scourges of the sea." 



GALEUS Rafinesque, 1810 (galeus). 

 GALEUS AUSTRALIS Macleay (School Shark). 



GalcHs australis, Mad., P.L.S., N.S.W., vi, 1881, p. 354; McCoy, Prod. Zool. Vict., 

 dee. vii, 1882, pi. Ixiv, fig. 2 ; Waite, Ree. Cant. Mus., i, 1909, p. 139, pi. xv 

 .(young). 



