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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



According to Dr Smith this is the commonest shark of the 

 Woods Hole region; it is found in Vineyard sound from June to 

 November. The largest are 12 feet long. Fish, crabs and other 

 animals are found in its stomach. 



Some of the teeth of a large individual were secured from 

 A. P. Latto at Southampton in July. Instead of a single basal 

 cusp, as usual, certain teeth had two such cusps on each side. 

 The last sand shark seen by me during the summer of 1898, in 

 Great South bay, was observed September 16 near the inlet at 

 Fire island, swimming slowly westward near the surface. A 

 list of specimens follows. 



(Teeth) Southampton, Atlantic ocean July 



6 Clam Pond cove. Great South bay Sep. 6 

 $ Clam Pond cove, Great South bay Sep. 6 



A young male received from Gravesend bay June 26, 1895, 

 lived in captivity till Dec. 19, 1895, when the temperature of the 

 water in its pool was 53° ,F. The following notes were made 

 from the recently dead specimen: 



Color, bronze gray with light brown blotches, the largest 

 about as long as the eye ; belly and other lower parts white ; eye 

 yellowish; tips of pectorals, ventrals, dorsals, anal and caudal 

 above and below with a narrow black streak; numerous minute 

 dark specks on the under surface of snout and suborbital 

 region, extending back to angle of mouth. 



Two rows of teeth in function above and three below. Length 

 of longest tooth in lower jaw, one half inch; in upper jaw, three 

 eighths inch. 



MEASUEEMENTS 



Length 



Depth of body = 



Least depth of caudal peduncle 



Tip of snout to perpendicular through last gillopening 



From fii^st to last gill opening 



Depth of gill openings 



Snout 



Eye to spiracle 



Eye 



Snout to nostril , 



Feet 

 3 



% loni 



Inches 

 6 



61/2 



1% 

 10 



21/2 



2 



21/2 

 11/2 

 : % deep 

 1^/4 



