LARGK-SPOTTED DOG-FISH. 373 



CHONDROPTERYGII. SQUALID A:. 



THE LARGE-SPOTTED DOG-FISH. 



ROCK DOG-FISH. BOUNCE, Scotland. 



Scyllium catulus, La Petite Roussette, Cuvier, Regne An. t. ii. p. 386. 



,, stellaris, Le Roehier, ,, ,, ,, ,. 



,, stellare, Bounce, Flem. Brit. An. p. 165, sp. 7. 



,, stellaris. Rock Dog-fish, Jenyns, Man.Brit.Vert. p. 496, sp. 185. 



Squalus catulus et stellaris, Linn^us. 



,, canicula, Le Squale Panthere, Blainville, Faun. Franf. p. 71. 



,, stellaris, ,, ,, Rockier, ,, ,, „ 



This Shark is at once distinguished from the species last 

 described by its larger but less numerous spots, by the 

 greater bulk of its body for the same length, and by the 

 ventral fins, which are truncated or nearly square at the end. 

 Like the Small-spotted Dog-fish, its haunts are near the 

 bottom, and its food similar ; but it also frequents rocky 

 ground, and has accordingly been distinguished on the Conti- 

 nent by the term Rockier, as shown in the list of syno- 

 nymes. 



Mr. Jenyns, in his valuable Manual of British Vertebrate 

 Animals, has so clearly pointed out the specific distinctions 

 of this fish, from examples obtained at Weymouth, that, 

 having no specimen, this Shark being by much the more rare 



