g Mindeskrift for J. Steenstrup. XXX. 



of Sukkertoppen and Holsteinsborg, where other southern species roam about in the 

 summer time (halibut, cod). 



General Distribution. The Picked Dogfish has a very wide distribution. On 

 the western side of the Atlantic it is of common occurrence on the northern and 

 middle coasts of the United States and is met with as far south as Cuba, On the 

 European side it reaches from the Murman Coast to the Mediterranean, westward 

 over the Færoes to Iceland. In the southern hemisphere it is known from South 

 Africa, Mauritius, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Patagonia and Chili. In the 

 Pacific, further, it is known from Hawaii, Ghina, Japan and the west-coast of North- 

 America, southward to Galifornia '). 



Somniosus microcephalus Bloch-Schneider. 

 {Squalus carcharias Fabricius (non Linné) Fauna Groenl., 1780, p. 127). 



English: The Greenland Shark. 



Danish : Havkai. 



Greenlandic : Ekaliigssuak. 



West Greenland. The Greenland Shark — or Shark, as it is simply called by 

 the Danish in Greenland — was taken on lines (sometimes in the trawl and with hand- 

 lines) at the following piaces during the "Tjalfe" Expedition of 1908 — 09: Nuk inside 

 Ilua, 120—180 fm. ; the fjord north of Ilua, 80 — 310 fm. ; Tasermiut, outer part, 180 — 

 250 fm. ; Agdluitsok, at the mouth, oif Lichtenau and in at Nuluk, 150 — 260 fm. ; off 

 Julianehaab harbour, 120 — 170 fm.; Tunugdliarfik from the mouth inwards to ofT Nug- 

 arsuk, 60 — 200 fm. ; Bredefjord with Kangerdluarsuk, 100 — 300 fm. ; Kvanefjord S. of 

 Frederikshaab, 100 — 200 fm. ; Godthaabsfjord (near Siorarsiorfik, 30 — 40 fm. ; between 

 Hundeø and Ny Hernhut, 80 — 90 fm.); between Godthaabsfjord and Fyllas Bank, 70 

 fm.; 2 miles W. of Store Vardeø at Holsteinsborg, 40— 30fm.; 66°41' N., 56°24' W., 

 178— 164 fm.; 66°45' N., 56°23' W., ca. 175 fm.; 66°49' N., 56°40'— 56°38' W., 144—154 

 fm. ; off the south-east coast of Disko, 95 — 193 fm. ; north-west end of Jakobshavn Ice- 

 berg Bank, 141 fm.; off Nordø at Ritenbenk, 110 fm.; Torsukatak Isfjord at Kekertak, 

 ]60fm. ; Umanakfjord, a little S. uf the colony, 100 — 380 fm. and off the north-west 

 point of Talerok Island, 140 fm. 



These captures alone show, that the Greenland Shark is common from the south 

 point up to Umanakfjord, in the fjords, on the sea coast and a good way out in the Davis 

 Strait. According to information from local authorities, the shark also occurs further 



^) The species is here taken as it has been given by Gunther (Catal. of Fishes, VIII, 1870, 

 p. 418). C. T. Regan has again (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), 2, 1908, p. 46-48) separated the 

 forms from the southern hemisphere and from the Pacific as (5) distinct species, so that only the 

 following distribution is indicated for Squalus acanthias: "Atlantic coasts of Europe and North 

 America, southward to the Mediterranean and to Cuba". 



