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LIST OP THE AUSTRALIAN PALiEICHTHYES. 
this neighborhood as the “ White Pointer,” and being 
quite equal in ferocity to Galeocerdo ro/yneri is even more 
dreaded than that species. McCoy records it as rare in 
Hobson’s Bay, while Johnston makes no mention of its 
occurrence on the Tasmanian coast ; Gunther however men- 
tions that the jaws of a specimen, which measured no less 
than thirty-six and half feet, from Port Fairey, W. 
Australia, are in the British Museum. 
Odontaspis, Agassiz (pi’ior to 1837). 
18. 0. TAURUS, R%fin, sp. Coast of New South Wales, at least 
as far north as Port Jackson, where it is well known to 
the fishermen as the “Grey Nurse.” Victoria; the most 
common of the larger sharks in Hobson’s Bay, and 
called the “ Shovel-nose Shark ” {McCoy). Tasmania, not 
uncommon (Johnston). 
Alopias, Rafinesque (1810). 
19. A. VULPES, Gmel.., sp. The “ Fox Shark,” “ Thresher,” or 
“ Long-tailed Shark.” Neighborhood of Port Jackson 
(Macleay Mus.). Hastings, Vic., two specimens (J/cCot/)* 
Tasmania {Alljiort). 
Cetorhinus, Blainville (1810). 
20. C. MAXIMUS, Gtmn., sp>. A single specimen of the “ Bask- 
ing Shark,” captured off Portland, Vic., in November 1883, 
gives the species a right to a place in our fauna, and is 
further remarkable as being hitherto the only authenticated 
record of its occurrence south of the equator. The generic 
name Cetorhinus having been used by Blainville {Bull. Soc. 
Philom. 1810, p. 121 ) for this shark many years previous 
to that of Selache by Cuvier (Regne Anim. 2nd. ed. II. 
1829, p. 391), and being pre-eminently applicable to this 
Whale-like form, is assuredly the correct title to give it. 
