08 FAUNA OF NORTH WALES 



off St. Tudwal's, 25th May, 1910, was sent to His Majesty the 

 King. Several others taken in the Dee are recorded in the 

 Vert. Fauna of Cheshire, IT., 158. 



129.— SMALL-SPOTTED DOG FISH, or ROUGH HOUND. 



ScylUum canicula. (L.). 



Common all along the coast. 



130.— LARGE-SPOTTED DOG FISH, NURSE HOUND, 

 OB CAT FISH. ScylUum stellare. (L.) 



Rather rarely met with on the west coast. 



131.— BASKING SHARK. Selache maxima. (L.) 



Not very uncommon off the west coast. 



In his British Zoology Pennant writes of this large species : 

 " They visited the bays of Carnarvonshire and Anglesey in 

 vast shoals in the summers of 1756 and a few succeeding years, 

 continuing there only the hot months, for they quitted the coast 

 about Michaelmas, as if cold weather was disagreeable to them. 

 Some old people say they recollect the same sort of fish visiting 

 these Beas in vast numbers about forty years ago." Since 

 Pennant wrote they seem never to have appeared on these 

 coasts in numbers. 



132.— PORBEAGLE, or BEAUjVIARIS SHARK. 



Lamna cornubica. (Gmel.) 



Not uncommon round Anglesey. 



Dr. J. H. Lister took one off Barmouth about 1905, it measured 

 over 9 feet. 



133.— THRESHER, or FOX SHARK. Alopecias vulpes. 



(Gmel.) 



Occasional on north coast cmd in Menai Straits. 



134.— SMOOTH HOUND. Mustelus loevis. Flem. 

 Not very common, 



135.— TOPE. Galeus vulgaris. Flem. 

 Fairly common, especially round Anglesey. 



