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STEGOSTOMA TYGRINUM, Bonnaterre.' 
Seba, Thesauri, iii, p. 105, pl. xxxiv, fig. 1, prior to 1765. 
Squalus sp., Gronovius, Mus. Ichth., i, p. 62, 1754; id., Zoophyl, 
p. 31, No. 147, 1763. 
Squalus tygrinus, Bonnaterre, Hneyl. Meth. Ichthy., 1788, p. 8, 
pl. viii., fig. 23. 
Squalus tigrinus, Gmelin., Syst. Nat., i, p. 1493, 1789, Indian 
Ocean ; Forster, Zool. Ind., (2) p. 24, pl. xiii, fig. 2, 1795; 
Lacépeéde, Porss., 1, p. 249, 1798. 
Squalus longicaudus, Gmelin, zbid, p. 1496. 
Squalus fasciatus, Bloch, Ausl. Fisch., pl. cxiii, 1795. 
Poolleemakum, Russell, ish. Vizagapatam, i, p. 11, pl. xviii, 1803, 
Coromandel Coast. 
Scyllium heptagonum, Rippell, Neue Wirbelth. Abyss. Fisch., p. 61, 
pl. xvii, fig. 1, 1837, Massoua. 
Stegostoma fasciatum, Miiller and Henle, Plagiost., p. 24, pl. vii 
(lower surface of head), 1841; Cantor, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 
Xviii, 1849, p. 1378, Sea of Pinang; Gray, Cat. Chondropt., 
p. 38, 1851, Madras; Jerdon, Madras Journ. Lit. and Sci.. 
1851, p. 148; Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Gen. xxiv, 1852, Plagiost. 
p. 23; zd., cbid., xxv, 1853, Bengal en Hind., p. 80; Blyth, 
Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, xxix, 1860, p. 35; Dumeéril, Hlasmobr. 
p. 336, 1865; Giinther, Mish. Zanzibar, p. 140, 1866; Klun- 
zinger, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien., 1871, p. 672, Red Sea. 
Stegostoma carinatum, Blyth. ibid., xvi, 1847, p. 725, pl. xxv, fig. 1. 
Squalus cirrosus, Gray, Cat. Fish. Gronov., p. 6, 1854. 
Stegostoma tigrinum, Giinther, B.M. Cat. Fish. viii, p. 409, 1870, 
Zanzibar, Ceylon, India, Formosa; Day, /%ish. India, p. 725, 
pl. clxxxvii, fig. 4, 1878, Malay Archipelago; Ogilby, Catal. 
' We use Bonnaterre’s name because the want of books prevents us 
from tracing the literary history of this shark further back. Those more 
fortunately situated, to whom we leave the final revision, may trace it to 
earlier authors. 
