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SQUALID.E. 



CHONDROPTERYGJI. 



SQUALID^. 



THE SPINOUS SHARK. 



Echinorhinus spinosus, Blainville, Faun. FraD9. Poiss. p. 66, sp. 6. 

 ,, ,, MusiGNANO, Faun. Ital. pt. xiii. 



,, obesus, Dr. A. Smith, Zool. South. Afr. No. 1. 



Squalls spi7wsus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I. p. 1500, sp. 27. 



„ „ Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 4to. t. i. p. 30, tab. 3, fig. 



2, 8vo. t. 5, p. 354, pi. 22. 

 ,, ,, Schneider, p. 136, sp. 31. 



„ „ Risso, Ichth. p. 42, sp. 18. 



Scymnus „ ,, Hist. t. iii. p. 136, sp. 21. 



CuviER, Regne An. t. ii. 1829, p. 393. 

 Gonoidus „ Agassiz, Recherches sur les Poiss. Foss. 



Generic Characters. Echinorhinus, Blainville. Gonoidus, Agassiz. — The 

 first dorsal fin opposite to the abdominal ones. Teeth in both jaws, broad and 

 low, the edge nearly horizontal ; the lateral edges have one or two transverse 

 denticles. (1 species.)* 



Soon after the publication of that part of the British 

 Fishes which contained the Sharks, I received a communica- 

 tion from Mr. John Hey, then Honorary Curator to the 

 Leeds Philosophical Society, with a coloured drawing of the 

 well known Spinous Shark of authors, a specimen of which 



* Miillerand Henle. Generic characters of Cartilaginous Fisiies. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist, for 1838, p. 89. 



