FISHES OF NEAT YORK 



Inches Lines 



From tip of snout to nostril 10 



From nostril to mouth 10 



From mouth to anus 10 6 



From anus to anal fin 2 6 



Base of anal fin 1 



Hight of anal fin 1 



From anal fin to caudal 1 9 



Length of caudal fin 7 



Distance from pectoral to ventral 4 6 



Base of first dorsal fin 2 3 



Hight of first dorsal fin 2 5 



Base of second dorsal fin ! 1 



Hight of second dorsal fin 7 



Length of pectoral fin 3 4 



Width of pectoral fin 2 4 



Distance between nostrils 1 6 



Width of mouth ...:.. 2 



Genus SCOLIODON Miiller & Henle 



Body slender; snout depressed; no spiracles; teeth entire or 

 little serrated, oblique and flat, the points directed sidewise sa 

 that the inner margins are more or less nearly horizontal, the 

 teeth in front more nearly erect; teeth not swollen at the base,. 

 each of them with a deep notch on the outer margin below the 

 sharp point; labial folds conspicuous; first dorsal over the inter- 

 space between pectorals and ventrals; second dorsal very small; 

 ventrals small; size small. 



12 Scoliodon terrae novae (Richardson) 

 Shark 



Squalus (Carcliarias) terrae-novae RICHARDSON, Fauna Bor.-Amer. 289, 1836. 

 Carcliarias terrae-novae GUNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. VIII, 360, 1870. 

 Carcliarias (Scoliodon) terrae-novae GILL, Cat. Fish. East Coast N. A. 59,. 



1861. 



Squalus punctatus MITCHILL, Trans. Lit & Phil. Soc. X. Y. I, 483, 1815. 

 Scoliodon terrae-novae JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 24^ 



1883; JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 43, 1896. 



Snout moderately rounded; mouth U-shaped, with a short 

 labial groove at its angle extending on both jaws; distance from 

 tip of snout to nostril less than distance between nostrils; gill 

 openings narrow; first dorsal moderate, midway between pec- 



