Class IV 



PICKED SHARK. 



133 



'AxavQiasyaXeo;. Arist. HiSt. 



an. HI. vi. c. 10. Oppian 



Halieut. i. 380. 

 Eirtvamj Athencei, Lib. vii. 

 L'Esguillats. Belon, 6l. 

 Galeusacanthias. Rondel. 373. 



Gesner pise 607- 

 Sperhaye, Dornhundt. ScAw- 



nevelde, 2Q. 

 Galeus acanthias sive spinax. 



JFiZ. JcA/A. 56. 

 The picked dog, or hound fish. 



Raii Syn. pise. 21. 

 Squalus spinax. Lin. Syst. 



397. Sq. pinna ani nulla, 2. Picked. 



dorsalibus spinosis, corpore 



teretiusculo. Hid. S. acan- 

 thias. Gm. Lin. 1501. 

 Sq. pinna ani nulla, corpore 



subrotundo. Arted. Synon. 



94. 

 Hai. Faun. Suec. No. 295. 



Gronov. Zooph. 14g. 

 L'Aquillat. Block ichth. iii. 



68. ta&. 85. 

 Le Squale aiguillat. JDe la 



Cepede Hist, des Poissoris. 



i. 270. 



_L HE picked Shark or dog iish takes its name 

 from a strong and sharp spine placed just be- 

 fore each of the back fins, distinguishing it at 

 once from the rest of the British sharks. 



The nose is long, and extends greatly beyond 

 the mouth, but is blunt at the end ; the teeth are 

 disposed in two rows, are small and sharp, and 

 bend from the middle of each jaw towards the 

 corners of the mouth. The tail is finned for a 

 considerable space beneath, and the upper part 

 is much the longer ; the back is of a brownish 

 ash color ; the belly white. It grows to the 

 weight of about twenty pounds. 



This species swarms on the coasts of Scot* 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



