148 



SPOTTED SHARK. Class IV. 



Spotted. Nsf^a^, EkvXios, A<rre§lus - ? 



Arist. Hist. an. Lib. v. c. 



10. vi. c. 10, 11. 

 IIuki\o$ ? Oppian Halieut. \. 



381. 

 La Roussete commune. Belon, 



6b. 

 Canicula Aristotelis. Rondel. 



380. Gesner pise. 168. 

 Catulus major vulgaris. Wil. 



Ichth. 62. 

 Greater Cat Fish : the Bounce. 



Raii syn. pise. 22, 

 Squalus ex rufo varius, pinna 



ani medio inter anum et 



caudam pinnatum. Arted. 



syn. 97. 

 Squalus Canicula. Lin. syst. 



3gg. Gm. Lin. 1490. 

 Gronov. Zooph. No. 145. 

 Greater Cat fish. Edw. 289. 

 La Roussette tigree. Block 



ichth. \v. 13. tab. 112. 

 Le Squale Roussette. De la 



Cepecte Hist, des Poissons. 



i. 221. tab. Q. Jig. 2. (la 

 femelle.) 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



JL HIS species being remarkably spotted, may 

 be the same known to the antients by the names 

 expressed in the synonyms ; but they frequently 

 leave such slight notices of the animals they 

 mention, that we are obliged to add a doubt- 

 ful mark (?) to numbers of them. 



The weight of one we took was six pounds 

 three ounces, and yet it measured three feet 

 eight inches in length ; so light are the cartila- 

 ginous fish in respect to their size. The nose 

 was short, and very blunt, not extending above 

 an inch and an half beyond the mouth; the 

 nostrils were large, placed near the mouth, and 

 covered with a large angular flap ; the head very 



