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14. (14.) Carcharias murrayi. 



Carcharias murrayi, Giinther, A. M. N. II. (5) xi, p. 137 (1883); 

 Day, Fish. India, Supplement, 1888, p. 809. 



Snout short and obtuse ; the distance between the mouth and the 

 end of the snout being less than that between the inner angles of 

 the nostrils. Nostrils nearly midway between the end of the snout 

 and the mouth. Teeth in the upper jaw of moderate size, the 

 anterior equilateral, rather longer than broad, those on the side 

 oblique with the posterior edge concave and both edges finely 

 serrated; twenty-nine rows in the lower jaw, lanceolate, their 

 edges smooth, with a broad base, two-rooted, and some with an 

 additional minute lobe. Fins first dorsal commences opposite 

 the axil of the pectoral ; the second only one third the size of the 

 first, but conspicuously larger than the anal, which is small. Origin 

 of anal behind that of the second dorsal. Pectoral large, exceeding 

 the distance between the first gill-opening and the end of the snout ; 

 the length of its hind margin only one fourth of that of its outer. 

 Caudal of moderate length, rather longer than the distance between 

 the two dorsal fins. Colour uniform, top of first dorsal appears 

 to have been black. 



Hob. Kurrachee, where an example 6 feet 8 inches long was 

 captured. The specimen, which is in the British Museum, is stuffed 

 and not in a very good condition; it seems only to differ from 

 G. ellioti in the size of the second dorsal and anal fins. 



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lo. (15.) Carcharias memsorrah. 

 Carcharias (Prionodon) menisorrah, (Fa?.) Mull, fy Henle, Plagios. 



p. 46, t. xvii. 

 Carcharias menisorrali, Day, Fish. India, p. 710, pi. clxxxiv, fig. 1 



(see synon.) 

 Karamoottee sorrah and ('if/a sorrah, Tel.; Nga man nee, Arracan. 



Preoral portion of snout nearly or quite as long as the mouth is 

 wide ; the width of the head equals the distance from the angle of 

 the mouth to the end of the snout. A very small groove at the 

 angle of the mouth extending a short distance on to the upper jaw. 

 Teeth twenty-eight in the upper jaw ; they are oblique, triangular, 

 notched externally, and serrated in the whole extent of their cusps ; 

 lower teeth erect, slender, lanceolate, not serrated, and having broad 

 bases. Fins pectoral not so long as head, one fifth longer than 

 broad at its extremity, it is scarcely emarginate, its inner margin 

 equals about half the length of the outer; base of the second 

 dorsal slightly more than half of that of the first dorsal, it is 

 opposite, and almost as large as the anal. Posterior end of the 

 dorsal fin at the same distance from the ventrals as its anterior 

 end is from the root of the pectoral. Upper edge of the caudal 

 almost straight, its length being slightly more than the interval 

 between its base and the origin of the ventral. Colour grey above, 





