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PARASCYLLIUM, Gill. 
Parascyllium, Gill, Ann. Lyc. N. York, 1861, p. 412; Giinth., BW. 
Cat. Fish., viii, 1870, p. 410; Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1908, 
li, p. 349. 
Body elongate, somewhat cylindrical, with the tail not 
elevated above the axial plane. Scales minute, lateral line 
fairly distinct. Head long and depressed, with a broadly 
rounded snout. A longitudinal fold below the eye. Nasal 
valve with an obtuse inner cirrus. Mouth inferior, and 
nearer to the tip of the snout than to the eye. Lower lip 
entire. Teeth minute and arranged in many series; similar 
in both jaws, being triangular and with or without lateral 
cusps. Spiracle minute, below the posterior angle of the 
eye. Posterior gill-opening very large; two above the 
pectoral. Tail about once and two-thirds the length of 
the head and trunk. First dorsal placed far behind the 
ventrals. Anal fin in advance of the base of the second 
dorsal. Caudalfin small. (zapa, beside; oxvAAvov, Seyllium), 
Small sharks inhabiting the deeper water off the coast of 
South-eastern Australia and Tasmania. 
Anal fin entirely in advance of the second dorsal; brown, 
with a dark nuchal collar,and with large dark spots. collare. 
Anal partly below the second dorsal; body clouded with 
brown and with white spots, a dark nuchal collar closely 
spotted with white. variolatum- 
PARASCYLLIUM COLLARE, Ramsay and Ogilby. 
Parascyllium variolatum, Ginth. £.M. Cat. Pish., viii, 1870, p- 
410 (non Duméril). 
Parascyllium collare, Ramsay and Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W., 
iii, (2), 1889, p.1310; Waite, Mem. Aust. Mus., iv, 1899, p. 32, 
pl. ii, f. 2, and ec. Austr. Mus., vi, 1906, p. 229, pl. xli; 
Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1908, ii, p. 349. 
**Collared Cat-Shark.”’ 
