Cia&IV. PICKED DOG FISH. “7 
im the PICKED DOG FIS 7: 
auaviias yxrtos. Arift. Hif. The picked dog, or hound fifh. 
an. lib. vi. co 10. Oppian Raii fyn. pife. 23. 
Halieut. I. 380. Squalus fpinax. Lin. fjft. 397- 
Emwotis Athenei lib. vii. p. Sq. pinna ani nulla, dorfa- 
L’Efguillats. Belor. 61. libus fpinofis, corpore tere- 
Galeus acanthias. Rondel. 373. tiufculo. Ibid. 
Gener. pife. 607. Sq. pinna ani nulla, corpore 
Sperhaye, Dornhundt. Schone- fubrotundo. Arted. fynon. 94. 
velde, 29. Hai. Faun. fuec. No. 295. Gro- 
Galeus acanthias five fpinax, now. Looph. 14.0. 
Wil. Icth. Os 
HE picked dog fifh takes its name from a 
{trong and fharp fpine placed juft before each 
of the back fins, diftinguifhing it at once from the 
reft of the Britifb tharks. 
The nofe is long, and extends greatly beyond the 
mouth, but is blunt at the end. 
The teeth are difpofed in two rows, are {mall and 
fharp, and bend from the middle of each jaw to- 
wards the corners of the mouth. 
The firft back fin is placed nearer.the head than 
the tail; the other is fituated very near the latter. 
The tail is finned for a confiderable fpace beneath, 
and the upper part is much the longeft. 
The back is of a brownith afh-color; the belly 
white. 
It grows to the weight of about twenty pounds. 
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