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ANGEL SHARK. 



Class IV. 



GENUS IX. SHARK. 



Body somewhat cylindrical, growing slenderer 



towards the tail. 

 Fins, two on the back. 

 Skin rough. 



Apertures, five on the sides of the neck. 

 Mouth generally placed far beneath the end of 



the nose. 

 Tail, upper part longer than the lower. 



* Without the anal fin. 



1. Angel. J> lV y. Arist. Hist. an. lib. v. 



c. 5, &c. Athenians, lib. vii. 



£.319. 

 Oppian Halieut. i. 388, 742. 

 Squatina. Plin. lib. ix. c. 12. 



Rhina, sc. Squatus. lib. 



xxxii. c. 1 1 . 

 L'Ange, ou Angelot de mer. 



Belon 6§. 

 Squatina. Rondel. 367. Gesner 



pise. 899. Wil. Ichth. 79. 

 Monk, or Angel Fish. Rail 



Syn. pise. 26. 

 Squalus squatina. Lin. Syst. 



398. S. pinna ani nulla, 

 caudae duabus, ore termi- 

 nals, naribus cirrosis. Ibid. 

 Gm. Lin. 1503. 



Sq. pinna ani carens, ore in 

 apice capitis. At ted. Syn. 

 95. 



Gronov. Zooph. No. 151. 



L' Angelot de Mer. Block 

 ichth. iv. 23. tab. 116. 



Le Squale ange. De la Cepede 

 Hist, des Poissons. i. 293. 

 tab. 12. Jig. I. 



_L HIS is the fish which connects the genus of 

 Rays and Sharks, partaking something of the 



