WHITE SHARK. 



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CHONDROPTERYGIL 



SQUALID/E. 



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THE WHITE SHARK. 



Carcharias vulgaris, Le Kequin, Cuvier, Regne An. t, ii. p. 387. 

 White Shark, Flem. Brit. An. p. 167, sp. 12. 

 Canis Carcharias, Willughbv, p. 47, B. 7. 

 Squalus ,, White Shark, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 139. 



„ „ „ ,, Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 497, sp. 186. 



,, ,, Le Squale Requin, Blainville, Faun. Franf. p. 89. 



Generic Characters. — Jaws and head depressed ; nostrils pierced in front ; 

 teeth pointed and cutting, often serrated at the edges : first dorsal fin large and 

 placed behind the pectorals and before the ventral s ; pectoral fins large. 



This species has been noticed by several English authors, 

 but apparently not from specimens which had been examined 

 by them personally. Low says that, according to information 

 given him, it is sometimes met with among the Orkney Is- 

 lands. Grew, in his Rarities of Gresham College, page 90, 

 states that they are sometimes found upon our own coast 

 near Cornwall. As it appears to be well known in the Me- 

 diterranean, and to be a great wanderer, the Cornish coast is 

 a very probable locality, and it, or the fish figured in the 

 vignette, may prove to be the Rashleigh Shark of Mr. Couch. 



This fish acquires a large size, and with another species, 

 not very dissimilar in shape and equally powerful, are the 

 terror of mariners in most of the warm countries of the globe. 



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