134 

 Class PISCES. 



Sub-Class ELASMOBRANCHII. 



Order PLAGIOSTOMI. 



Sub-Order Selachii. 



Family HEXANCHIDAE. 

 Heptranchias, Rafinesque. 



Notidanus, Cuv. Regne Anim. ed. i, 1817. 



Notidanus (Heptanchus), Giinth. Cat. Fish, viii, p. 398, 1870. 



Heptranchias, Rafinesque, Caratteri di Alcuni Nuovi Generi, 

 p. 14, 1810. 



Notorhynchus, Ayres, Proc. Calif. Ac. Sc. 1856, i, p. 72. 



Heptranchias indicus, Cuv. 



Notidanus indicus, Cuv. Regne Anim. 1817 ; Agassiz, Poiss. 

 foss. iii, pp. 92, 217, pi. E, fig. I (teeth) 1836 ; Giinth. Cat. 

 Fish, viii, p. 398, 1870 (Cape of Good Hope to Cahfornia) ; 

 Day, Fish. India, p. 723, pi. clxxxix, fig. 4, 1878 (Madras) ; 

 Gilchr. Cat. Fish. 1902, p. 165 (South Africa). 



Heptanchus indicus, Miill. & Henle, Plag. p. 82, pi. xxxii (teeth) 

 1841 ; Temm. & Schleg. Faun. Japon. Poiss. p. 303, 1850 ; 

 Blkr. Visch. v.d. Kaap, p. 58, Name only, i860 (South 

 Africa) ; Dumeril, Elasmobr. i, p. 434, 1865 ; Macdonald 

 & Barron, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 371, pi. xxxiii. 



Heptranchias maculatus, Girard, U.S. Pacific R.R. Exp. Fish, 

 p. 367, 1858 ; Jord. & Gilb. Synops. p. 62, 1883 ; Jord. Tan. 

 & Snyd. Cat. Fish. Japan, p. 7, 1913 (Sagami Sea, Japan ; 

 Pacific coast of North America). 



Notorhynchus maculatus, Ayres, Proc. Calif. Ac. Nat. Sc. 1856, 

 i, p. 72 (San Francisco) ; Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 

 1862, p. 495, and 1864, p. 149 ; Jord.& Everm. Fish. N. and 

 Mid. Amer. p. 17, 1896 (Pacific coast of N. America from 

 Monterey north to Washington ; common northwards, 

 especially in Humboldt Bay). 



Notorhynchus horealis. Gill t.c.p. 150, 1864. 



