m4 AN GEM SFIS Geom 
Genus VI. Slender body growing lefs towards 
the tail. 
Two fins on the back. 
Rough fkin. 
Five apertures on the fides of the neck. 
Mouth, generally placed far beneath the 
end of the nofe. 
The upper part of the tail longer than - 
the lower. SHARKS. 
* Without the anal fin. 
Peoimthes) Ati No G:) Biyiky tae ee 
Piyy. Arift. Hift. an. lib. v. ¢. 
5,&c. Atheneus, lib, vii. p. 
See Ea 
Oppian Halicat. 1. 388, 742. 
Squatina Plin. lib. ix. c. 12. 
Rhina, fc. Squatus. “4.xxxil. 
c i. 
L’Ange, ou Angelot de mer. 
Belon. 69. 
Squatina. Rondel. 367. Gener. 
pil. 889. Wil. Icth. 79. 
Monk, or Angel Fifh. Raii fyn. 
pife. 26. 
Squalus fquatina. Lin. /j/. 
398. S. pinna ani nulla, 
caudz duabus, ore termina- 
li, naribus cirrofis. Iézd. 
Sq. pinna ani carens, ore in 
apice capitis. drted. fya. 95. 
Gronov. Zooph. No. 151. 
HIS is the fifh which connects the genus of 
rays and fharks, partaking fomething of the 
charaéter of both; yet in an exception to each in 
the fituation of the mouth, which is placed at the 
extremity of the head. 
It is a fifh not unfrequent on moft of our coafts, 
where it prowls about for prey like others of the 
kind, It is extremely voracious, and, like the ray, 
feeds 
