147 



Odontaspis americanus, Abbott, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 



1861, p. 399 ; Giinth. Cat. Fish, viii, p. 392, 1870 (Atlantic, 



South Pacific, AustraHa, Tasmania, Cape seas) ; Gilchr. 



Cat. Fish. 1902, p. 164 (South Africa). 

 Engomphodus littoralis, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1864, 



p. 260. 

 Carcharias americanus, Jord. & Gilbert, Synops. p. 27, 1883. 

 Carcharias littoralis, Jord. & Everm. Fish. N. and Mid. America, 



p. 46, 1896 (Atlantic coast of North America — Cape Cod 



to Cape Hatteras especially). 



Alopias, Rafinesque. 



Alopias, Rafinesque, Caratteri di Alcuni Nuovi Generi, p. 12, 



1810. 

 Alopias (Alopecias), Mfill. & Henle, Plag. p. 74, 1841 ; Giinth. 



Cat. Fish, vih, p. 393, 1870. 



Alopias vulpes, Gmel. 



{Thresher- or Thrasher-Shark.) 



Simia, Bellon. De Aquat. p. 65, 1553 (Mediterranean). 

 Vulpes, Rondel, p. 387, 1554 (Europe) ; Gesner, De Aquat. p. 



1043, 1560. 

 Vulpecula, Salvian. p. 134, pi. 42, 1554 ; Aldrovand. p. 396, 



1638 ; Jonston, De Pise. tab. 7, fig, 3, 1649 ; Willughby, 



tab. B6, fig. 2, 1686. 

 Singe de mer, Belon, Nat. et Divers, des Poiss. p. 88, 1555. 

 Renard marin, Perrault, Mem. Ac. Sc. iii, pis. 15, 16, 1699 ; 



Duhamel, Pesch. ii, sect, ix, p. 303, pi. 21, figs, i & 2, 1777 ; 



Lacep. Hist. Poiss. i, p. 267, 1798 (Mediterranean ; English 



and Scottish coasts ; The ocean). 

 Squalus No. 8, Artedi, Gen. p. 68, Synon. p. 96, 1738. 

 Galeus cauda longa, Klein, Pise. Miss, iii, p. 10, 1749. 

 Sea-fox, Thresher or Thrasher, Borlase, Cornw. p. 265, 1758 



(Cornwall) ; Couch, Fish. Brit. Isl. i, p. 37, pi. 7, 1861 



(British coast). 

 Lon-g-tailed Shark, Penn. British Zool. iii, p. 97, pi. 14, 1769 or 



ed. 1812, iii, p. 145, pi. 17. 

 Squalus vulpes, Gmel. Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xiii, i, p. 1496, 1788 



(Mediterranean) ; Lacep. t.c.p. 267 ; Bl. Schn. Syst. Ichth. 



p. 127, 1801 ; Turton, British Faun. p. 102, 1807 ; Mitch. 



Phil. Lit. Trans. New York, 1815, i, p. 482 ; Blainv. Faun. 



Franc, p. 94, pi. 14, fig. i, 1828. 

 Squalus vulpinus, Bonnat. Tab. Encycl. Ichth. p. 9, 1788 



(Mediterranean). 

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