SQUALUS. 



vermiform appendages. It is found about the coifts of New 

 Holland, and is from three to four feet lonsj ; the body is 

 cohered with fmall, hard, fmooth (hinitig fcales, and marked 

 with black fpots, round and antjular, furroundcd with a 

 white circle. The head is large, deprelled, and fhort ; the 

 teeth are lanceolate, in many rows ; cirri unequal, about an 

 inch and a half long, and branched before. The temporal 

 orifice is large ; vent in the middle ; firll dorfa! oppofite the 

 vent ; the tail iubdivided. 



TiGRiNUs. Tail elongated ; the two hindmoft fpiracles 

 are confluent. It inhabits the Indian ocean, and grews to 

 the length of fifteen feet ; the body is thick, oblong, black, 

 with irregular white fpots and bands ; feeds on tellaceous 

 animals and crabs. The head of this fpecies is broad, flat, 

 and floping on the fore-part ; the mouth tranfverfe, with 

 two cirri ; the upper lip is thick and prominent ; the teeth 

 are minute, thofe on the upper jaw are moveable, and rough 

 like a rafp ; the tongue is thick, (hort ; the eyes are fmall, 

 eblong, and the pupil is blue ; the iris is black ; belly broad ; 

 peftoral fins (hort, broad ; fiift dorfal oppofite the ventral ; 

 the fecond is oppofite the anal ; the tail is compreded on 

 each fide, thin like a leaf at the end ; the fin is long, and 

 notched at the tip. 



Africanus. Body with feveral parallel, longitudinal, 

 blackifh bands above. This, as its fpecific name imports, 

 IS found in the African ocean, and is about two feet and a half 

 long ; the body is covered with minute fubquadrate fcales ; 

 above it is glaucous, beneath whitifh. 



OcELLATU.s. On each fide of the neck is a large, round, 

 black blotch, furrounded with white. It inhabits the Pa- 

 cific ocean and New Holland, is two feet and a half long ; 

 the body is long, cinereous, dotted ; beneath it is of a 

 greeni(h-a(h colour. 



ZvG.T-.vA. Head very broad, hammer-fliaped. It inha- 

 bits the Mediterranean, American, and Indian feas ; grows 

 to fix feet long, and to the weight of five hundred pounds ; 

 it is the moll rapacious of all its tribe. See Shark. 



TiBURio. The head is very broad, heart-diaped. It 

 inhabits the South American feas. It very much refembles 

 the lalt, except that the head, inltead of being widened on 

 each fide into a long procefs, is rather fnbtriangular, and 

 rounded off in front ; the fins are glaucous. 



Griseus. Spiracles fix on each fide. It inhabits the 

 Mediterranean ; is two feet and a half long ; the body is of 

 a moufe colour, a little rough ; in the dried (kin there is 

 the appearance of fmall fcales, with an elevated line in the 

 middle. 



VuLPES; Seafox, or Long-tailed Shark. This fpecies 

 inhabits the Mediterranean fea, and often wanders on the 

 Britifh coalls ; is feven feet long ; the body above is of a 

 blueifh-a(h colour ; beneath it is paler ; the fcales are very 

 minute. This is a very voracious fi(h. It is diltinguiOied 

 by its plump, (hort, fubovate body, and very long tapering 

 tail ; the head is (mall and pointed ; the firik dorfal fin is 

 triangular, and placed on the middle of the back ; the (ccond 

 ie fct above the beginning of the tail, which gradually tapers 

 to the tip, and is fiirniflied with a (hallow fin or procefs be- 

 neath, running from the bafc to the tip, which is (harp and 

 {lightly bilobate ; the peftoral fins are of confiderable fize ; 

 the eyes are large ; the mouth fmall ; the teeth triangular, 

 fmall, and difpofed in three rows. The colour of the fi(h 

 is dulky alh above, and whitiih beneath. It grows to the 

 length of thirteen or fourteen feet ; the tail meafures more 

 than half the length of the whole animal. It ii an inhabit- 

 ant of the Mediterranean and other feas, and is confidercd 

 a& a voracious and artful fi(h ; but the name of lea-fox it ap- 



plied to it rather from the length of its tail than from its 

 fuppoled (agacity. 



LoNGlCAUDUS. Upper jaw with two cirri ; the tail it 

 long, as its fpecific name denotes ; the head is obtufe ; the 

 nortrils near the mouth ; there are four fpiracles. 



Appendiculatus; Botany Bay Shark. Upper jaw with 

 two jagged, cartilaginous appendages, and four others on 

 each fide between the fir'l and the fpiracles. This inhabits 

 New South Wales ; is nineteen inches long ; the body is 

 brown, with three rows of large pale (pots, dark within, 

 rounded and nearly equal for half its length, and then 

 growing fuddenly very fmall. It is an extremely fierce ani- 

 mal. The head is broad, but angular ; the mouth is placed 

 near the end of the head ; it has nine teeth in front, which 

 are (liarp, crooked, and in three rows, with a great number 

 of fmall ones on each fide ; the eyes are projeding ; dorfal 

 fins placed far back ; the peftoral near the fpiracles ; ventral 

 near the middle of the body ; the anal more than half way 

 between the lalt and the tail, with a fin-like projeftion be- 

 hind it to the end of the tail. 



B. IVilh the anal Fin, hut no temporal Orifite. 



* Glaucus ; Blue Shark. The fides of the tail are 

 fmooth ; the lower part of the back with a triangular dent. 

 This is found in our own and almoft all other feas. See 

 Shark. 



* CoRNUBicus ; Probeagle Shark. The fnout of thi( 

 fpecies is projefting, (harp ; body round, deprefled and an- 

 gulate near the tail. It inhabits the Britifh coalls ; is from 

 three to four feet long; the body above is of a deep blue, 

 beneath it is filvery ; round, except near the tail, where it is 

 deprelled. This fpecies is flightly defcribed by Pennant, 

 from an engravmg which he found in Borlafe's Hiilory of 

 Cornwall, which was copied by Mr. Jago, who was efteemed 

 a very obfervant and Ikilful ichthyologill. A fpecimen ob- 

 ferved in 1793, on the coall of Haftings, is defcribed in the 

 third volume of the Liniixan Tranfaftions. Its length from 

 the tip of the fnout to the extremity of the tail, was three 

 feet ten inches ; the colour of the body was a deep blue on 

 the back, and white or filvery beneath ; the fhape was round, 

 except for about fix inches from the tail, where it was de- 

 prefled ; at about an inch from the tail was a femilunar or 

 lunar imprcdion, the points of which were towards the tail ; 

 where the body was deprcffed, the fides were raifed into a 

 (harp angle or elevated line, of about eight inches in length, 

 running to the middle of the tail, or a little beyond ; the 

 nofe was prominent, and (harp ; and on either fide, from the 

 nofe to the eyes, were numerous perforations or minute pores ; 

 the tail was of a lunar form, the upper lobe nearly a third 

 longer than the lower. 



* Cambricus ; Beaumaris Shark. Snout fhort, blunt ; 

 body cylindrical, angulate near the tail. This is chiefly 

 found on the Britifh coalls ; is feven feet long ; very much 

 refembles the la(l, except that it does not taper lo much 

 towards each end ; the body is of a lead-colour, and 

 Imoothilh. 



CiNEHF.us. Seven fpiracles on each fide. It inhabits 

 the Mediterranean ; is three feet long ; the body ie glaucous, 

 and a little rough. 



* Maximus ; Balking Shark. Teeth conic, not ferrate. 

 Sec Shark. 



* Carciiarias ; White Shark. In this fpecies the teeth 

 are triangular. This is the moil dreadful and voracious of 

 all animals. See Shark. 



C. Will) temporal Orifice, but no anetl Fin. 



* Sfinosus. Body covered svcr with large miicronate 



tubercle*. 



