Quite coinmon oq the coa^st ol' Worce^U'r couiuy. and in 

 I he drains emptying into the ocean. 

 Acad. Coll. 



GALP:()CERD0. Muller & Henle. 

 G. iKJiUNrs. 



Tiie Tio:er Shark. 



Bo'iy cylindrical, with a moderate tiat snout; caudal elon- 

 ^•at^d; last two branchial apertures above the pectorals; anal 

 lin, with tiie anterior lobe little produced and rounded. Dis- 

 linguished at once by its spotted body. 



(r. ti(fr'nius, Muller & Henle, p. 59, pi. 23: (rill, Froc. Ac. 

 Xat. Sc. Phil. 18()4, p. 2G3. 



— maculatus. Poey, Pieport Fish Xat. Cuba, 1868, p. 45o. 



Sometimes enters Chesapeake Bay, and is also on the ocean 

 coast of Worcester county. 



AirsTKLUS. Civ. 



M. CAMS. 



The Smooth Doa;-Fish. 



Tiie slender body is cylindrical, tapering, elongated. Head 

 flattened above; snout thin, obtusely pointed. Surface ot 

 bridy rough. Mouth crescent-shaped when opened, triangu- 

 lar when closed. Teeth on the jaws, smooth, flattened, rhom- 

 boidal, distributed in about ten rows. Both dorsal fin simi- 

 lar in shape; caudal fin bilobed. Length 2 to 4 feet. Uni- 

 form dull aslien-grey; white beneath. Upper edges of dor- 

 sals and anal bordered with black; ventrals and anals opaque 



white; lower lobes of caudal bordered with white or greyish. 

 31. canis, Storer, Amer. Acad. IX, 1867, p. 227, pi. 37, 



fig. 2; DeKay, Xew York Fauna^ Fishes, p. 355, pi. 64, fig. 



209. 



Very common on the coast of Worcester county and on the 

 southern shores of the EMstern peninsula. 

 Acad. Coll. S. I. 

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