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Records of the S.A. Museum 



C or char od 071 rondeletii Miill. & Henle, Mag. Nat. Hist. (2), ii, 1838, p. 37 and 

 Plag-iost., 1838, p. 70; McCoy, Prod. Zool. Vict., dec. viii, 1883, pi. Ixxiv. 



CdrcJuirodoH carcharidH riarni., Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., xxxvi, 1913, p. 32, pi. v, 

 fig. 5-9 (syn.). 



Fig. 28. Carcharndon carcliarias. 



The great Man-eating Shark ; found in all warm seas, its distribution girdling 

 the globe. It attains to between tliirty-tiv<> and forty feet in length. Teeth of but 

 recently extinct allies, dredged from the mid-Pacific, indicate that these huge 

 sharks were quite ninety feet in length, or as long as the largest living whales. 



Family CETORHINIDAE. 



CETORHINUS Blainville, 1816 (gunneri== maximus;. 



CETORHINUS MAXIMUS Gunner (Basking Shark). 



Squalus ))}(u ini us .Gnnn., Trondhj. Selsk. Skrift., iii, 17(55, p. 33, pi. ii. 



ticUiche maxima Cuv., Reg. Anim., ii, 1817, p. 129; Day, Fish. Tit. Brit, and Irel., 



ii, 1884, p. 303, pi. clviii, fig. 1. 

 CetorhiuHS iiiaj-imus (Tcrv., (\R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ixxxii, 1876, pi. cxxxviii; 

 McCoy, Prod. Zool. \'ict.. dec. xi, 1885, pi. civ; Jord. & Ever., Bull 47, U.S. 

 Nat. Mus., i, 1896, p. 51 and iv, 1900, pi. vii, fig. 23 ; Garm., Mem. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool, xxxvi, 1913, p. 39 (syn.). 



Fig. 29. Cetorhinus maximus. 



