jo’ LESSER DOG FISH Gime 
The chief difference feeming to be in the color 
and the fize of the {fpots; the former being gtey, 
the latter fewer but larger than in the other. 
1X. The LESSER WOG ise 
Lemufcarol ? Belon. 64. ventralibus concretis. 4rted. 
Catulus minor. Wil. Icth. 64. Synon. 97+ 
Leffer Rough Hound, or Mor- Squalus catulus. Lin. fy). 4002 
gay. Raii fyn. pife. 22. Gronow. Zooph. No. 144¢ 
Squalus dorfo vario, pinnis 
HE weight of one that was brought to us by 
a fifherman was only one pound twelve 
ounces; the length two feet two inches: it is of a 
flender make in all parts. | 
The head was flat: the noftrils covered witha 
long flap: the nofe blunt, and marked beneath 
with numerous fmall punctures: behind each eye 
was a {mall orifice: the back fins like thofe of the 
former, placed far behind. 
The ventral fins are united, forming as if it weré 
but one, which is a fure mark of this fpecies. 
The tail finned like that of the greater dog fifh. _ 
The color is cinereous, ftreaked in fome parts 
with red, and generally marked with numbers of 
fmall black fpots; but we have obferved in fome 
that they are very faint and obfcure. 
The belly is white. 
This fpecies breeds from nine to thirteen young 
at a time, are very numerous on fome of our coatts, 
and very injurious to the fifheries. 
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