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14. Galeorhinus zyopterus Jordan and Gilbert. 

 Oil Shark: Tope. 



Marine. 



Ranges from coast of California, from San Francisco to Cerros Island, Lower California, 

 Mexico: recorded from British Columbia. 



15. Prionace glauca Linnaeus. 

 Great Blue Shark. 

 Marine. 



Maritime Provinces and Banks of Newfoundland: 'coasts of California and Brazil (Valenci- 

 ennes, 1838, as Squalus hirundinaceus): more common in seas of Europe: "an inhab- 

 itant of the Mediterranean, and appears to occur much more frequently on the Devon- 

 shire and Cornish coasts than on any other part of the British Islands; it has been taken 

 in the Bristol Channel, and in Swansea Bay; also off the south and east coasts of Ireland, 

 and has been known to wander even as far north as Zetland" (Yarrell, 1859). 



16. Alopias vulpes Gmelin. 

 Thresher. 



Pelagic. 



Very cosmopolitan in the seas: Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: "occasionally taken [in Nova 

 Scotia] in fishing nets, to their great detriment — a fine specimen in the collection of 

 King's College, Windsor, N.S." (Jones, 1879): according to Knight, Basin of Minas 

 and Gulf of St. Lawrence* (1866, as Carcharias vulpes): also "Cumberland Bay and 

 Bay des Chaleurs" (Cox, 1895): "commonest of the larger Sharks frequenting the 

 British coasts" (Bridge, 1910): common in the Mediterranean: coast of New Zealand 

 (Gunther, 1880). 



17. Lamna cornubica Gmelin. 

 Porbeagle: Mackerel Shark. 

 Pelagic. 



Gulf of St. Lawrence and Maritime Provinces: north Atlantic and north Pacific: "occurs 

 occasionally on the northern and frequently on the southern coasts of this country 

 [Great Britain] and also on different parts of the Irish coast — not rare, according to 

 Dr. Baikie, among the Orkney Islands" (Yarrell, 1859): "Haast has found this species 

 also off the coast of New Zealand" (Gunther, 1880). 



18. Carcharodon carcharias Linnseus. 

 Great White Shark. 



Pelagic. 



Temperate and tropical seas: occasional on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North 

 America, and for that reason included here: "found in all tropical and sub-tropical seas, 

 from the Mediterranean to Australia and New Zealand" (Bridge, 1910, as C. rondeletii): 

 Cape of Good Hope (Smith, 1842, as C. capensis): "its distribution evidently girdling 

 the globe" (Jordan). 



♦Knight says: — "It is a great enemy to the small whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence." 



