154 



(South Africa) ; Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, xxix, 



i860, p. 36 ; Dumeril, Elasmobr. p. 476, pi. 9, fig. 4, 1865 ; 



Giinth. Cat. Fish, viii, p. 437, 1870 (West Indies ; Mexico ; 



Calcutta ; Cape of Good Hope) ; Klunz. Synops. Fisch. 



Roth. Meer. p. 673, 1871 (Red Sea) ; Jord. & Gilbert, 



Synops. p. 875, 1883 ; Day, Fish. Ind. p. 811, 1888 (Red 



Sea, and through Indian Ocean) ; Jord. & Everm. Fish. 



N. and Mid. Amer. p. 60, 1896 (tropical seas, north to 



West Indies and Florida ; abundant in Gulf of Mexico ; 



ascending Lower Mississippi) ; Gilchr. Cat. Fish. 1902, 



p. 166 (South Africa). 

 Squalus scie, Lacep. Hist. Poiss. i, p. 286, pi. 8, 1798 (North 



Sea ; coasts of Africa). 

 Pristis granulosa, Bl. Schn. Syst. Ichth. p. 352, 1801 (Havana). 

 Pristis mississippiensis, Raiinesque, Ichth. Ohio, p. 80, 1820 



(Lower Mississippi). 

 Pristis megalodon, Dumeril, Elasmobr. p. 476, pi. 9, fig. 4, 1865 



(Cayenne). 

 Pristis acutirostris, Dumeril, t.c.p. 479 (Martinique). 

 Pristis occa, Dumeril, t.c.p. 479. 

 Pristis leptodon, Dumeril, t.c.p. 480. 

 Pristis brevirostris, Dumeril, t.c.p. 480. 



Family RHINOBATIDAE. 



Rhinobatus, Bl. Schn. 



Rhinobatus, Bl. Schn. Syst. Ichth. p. 353, 1801 ; Giinth. Cat. 



Fish, viii, p. 441. 1870 ; Jord. & Everm. Fish. N. and Mid. 



Amer. p. 61, 1896. 

 Leiobatus, Rafinesque, Caratteri di Alcuni Nuovi Generi, p. 16, 



1810. 

 Syrrhina et Rhinobatus, Miill. & Henle, Flag. p. 113, 1841. 

 Glaucostegus, Bonap. Catalog© Metodico, p. 14, 1846. 



Rhinobatus blochii, M. & H. 



Rhinobatus (Syrrhina) blochii, Miill. & Henle, Flag. p. 115, pi. 

 37, fig. I, 1841 ; Gray, Chondropt. p. 94, 1851 (Cape of 

 Good Hope) ; Dumeril, Elasmobr. p. 488, 1865. 



Rhinobatus blochii, Blkr. Visch. v.d. Kaap, p. 58, Name only, 

 i860 (South Africa) ; Giinth. Cat. Fish, viii, p. 447, 1870 

 (Cape of Good Hope) ; Gilchr. Cat. Fish. 1902, p. 167 

 (South Africa) ; Regan, Col. Fish. 1908, p. 242 (Bird 

 Islands ; Durban Bay) ; Gilchr. & Thomp. Ann. S. Afr. 

 Mus. xi, 1911, pt. ii, p. 55 (Natal). 



