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Family, ALOPIID^. 



Genus, Alopias, Rafin (1810). 



16. Alopias vulpes, Gmel. 



Sy8t. Nat., ed. xiii., 1789, p. 1496. McCoy, Prod. Z. Vict., 

 dec. ix,, pi. Ixxxviii. (Thresher Shark.) 



I have seen this fish repeatedly leaping high out of the 

 water in front of the steamboat in which we were travel- 

 ling near Beachport, S.E., on one of Dr. Verco's dredging 

 trips. 



Family, LAMNID^. 



Genus, Odontaspis, Rafin (1810). 



17. Odontaspis taurus, Rafin. 



Carat. Ale. Nuovi Gen., 1810, p. 10. McCoy, Prod. Z. Vict., 

 dec. vii., pi. Ixiv., fig. i. (Grey Nurse.) 



Genus, Mitsukurina, Jordan. 

 18. Mitsukurina owstoni, Jordan. 

 Proc. Cahfornia Acad. Sci. (3), Zool., vol. i.. No. 6, 1898. 

 One specimen of this rare and highly interesting Japan- 

 ese deep-sea shark, about 4 ft. long, was netted near the 

 mouth of the River Murray. Mr. A. S. Woodward, the 

 able Curator of the Palasonthological Department of the 

 British Museum, wrote a most interesting account of its close 

 relationship with the extinct Srapanorhynchiis, and that 

 among the recent species it appears to be nearest allied to 

 Odontaspis. 



Genus, Isuropsis, Gill (1861). 

 19. Isuropsis g^lauca, Miill. and Henle. 

 Plagiost., 1838, p. 69, pi. xxix. (Blue Pointer.) 



Genus, Carcharodon, Smith (1837). 

 20. Carcharodon carcharias, Linn. 



Syst. Nat., ed. x., 1758. p. 235. McCoy, Prod. Z. Vict , 

 dec. viii., pi. Ixxiv. (White Pointer.) 



Family, CETORHINID^. 



Genus, Cetorhinus, Blainv. (1816). 



21. Cetorhinus maximus, Gunner. 



Trondh. Selskab, iii., 1765, p. 33. McCoy, Prod. Z. Vict., 

 dec. xi., pi. civ. (Basking Shark.) 



Only two young specimens, about 8-10 ft. long, were 

 netted near our coast. Attains to a length of more than 30 

 ft. 

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