62 LIST OK FISH. 



Bru<*den, Leems, 1 58. 



Basking Shark, Perm. Brit. Zool. n. 41, pi. 13. (Copied from 



Shaw, Gen. Zool. 327. pi. 149 (male), 150 (female). Encycl. 



MHh. f. 1!). Yarr. Brit. Fish, ii 306. 

 Le Tres-grand, Brows. (569, 18. Lacep. i. 207. 

 Pelerin Tres-grand, Diet. Sci. Nat. pi. 30. 

 Le Squalus Pelerin (Squalus maximus), Blainv. Ann. Musee, vii. t. 



0, f. 1. Anat. 

 Squalus elephas, Lesueur, Ph. Ac. ii. 350. 

 Selaclie, Agassiz, t. F, f. 8. 

 Selaclie maxima, Goi/eau, Hamb. Mag. 24 hand, 331. Midi. $■ 



Henle, Plug. 71. 

 Squalus isodus, Taverio Macri. Atti della Reale Accademia delle 



Scienze, i. 55, t. i. f. 1, t. ii. i". 2, Napoli, 1819. 

 Squalus (Selaclie) maximus, Cuv. Reg. An. 2 ed. ii. 390. Rich. 



Faun. Bor. Amer. in. 291. 

 Selachus maxirnus, De Ka>/, Nat. Hist, of New York, 357, pi. 63, 



f. 208 (male), 1842. 

 Celorhinus Homianus, Blainv. Bull. Sue. Phil. 121, 1816. 

 Cetorhinus Shavianus, Blainv. Bull. Soc. Phil. 121, 1816. 



Har. — North Sea, Coast of New Jersey, West Coast of Scotland, 

 &c, &c. 



Rineodon, Smith, Mag. Nat. Hist. 5, 1838? 



7. The gill-openings are large, and lie wholly before the breast- 

 fins. Spout-holes very small. Second back-fin and anal large. The 

 upper lobe of the tail-fin elongated as in Carcharias. Tail-pits in- 

 distinct, or wanting, and without the keels found in Lamnae. — 

 Odoxtaspidiaxa. 



Odontaspides, Mull. §• Henle, Plag. 73. 

 Triglochini, Bonap. Selac. Tab. Anal. 9, 1838. 



1. ODONTASPIS. 



A stout, three-cornered flap on the upper edge of the nostril. 

 The upper corner fold of the mouth is wanting. Cross plaits on 

 the throat. The fore teeth very long, conical, simple, or with one 

 or more very sharp, short, side denticles on the base; one or some 

 small teeth follow on each side the front ones of the upper-jaw ; 

 the hinder upper-teeth are more cutting, and diminish rapidly 



