

Class IV. LONG-TAILED SHARK. 



14a 



A\unf£% ? Arist. Hist. an. Lib. 



ix. c. 37. JElian Far. Hist. 



Lib. i. c. 5. 

 Oppian Halieut. i. 381. iii. 



144. 

 Vulpes Plinii Lib. ix. c. 43. 

 Singe de mer. Belon, 88. 

 Vulpes marina. Rondel. 337- 



Gesner pise. 1045. 

 Cercus Caii opusc. 1 10. 

 Sea Fox, or Ape. Wil. Ichih. 



54. Rail syn. pise. 20. 



Squalus cauda longiore quam 



ipsum corpus. Arted. syn. 



96. 

 Squalus Vulpes. Sq. caudae 



lobo superiore longitudine 



corporis. Gm. Lin. 1496. 

 Sea Fox. Thresher. Borlase 



Cornwall. 265. 

 Le Squale Renard. De la Ce- 



pede Hist, des Poissons. i. 



267. 



6. Long- 

 tailed. 



J_HIS fish is most remarkable for the great Des 

 length of the tail ; the whole measure of that we 

 had an opportunity of examining, was thirteen 

 feet, of which the tail alone was more than six, 

 the upper lobe extending greatly beyond the 

 lower, almost in a strait line. The body w r as 

 round and short; the nose short but sharp 

 pointed ; the eyes large, and placed immediately 

 ever the corners of the mouth, which was small, 

 and not very distant from the end of the nose ; 

 the teeth triangular, small for the size of the fish, 

 and placed in three rows ; the back ash color ; 

 the belly white ; the skin universally smooth. 



The antients styled this fish axwtts^ and 

 Vulpes, from its supposed cunning. They be- 



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