PLATE LXXXII. 



SqualuS Tentaculatus : rostro utrinque tentaculato, spinoso, 

 spinis longioribus brevioribusque iniermediis, 

 Shaw Gen. Zool. v, 5. p, 2. 359. 



This curious species of the finny tribe was made known in the 

 first instance through the medium of a paper written by Dr. Latham 

 and inserted in the second volume of the Linnaean Transactions as a 

 new species of the Pristis tribe ; and subsequently by Dr. Shaw in his 

 General Zoology as one of the Pristiform species of the Sharks. It 

 is entirely a native of the Southern hemisphere, and appears to be 

 one of the rarer fishes that inhabit the Southern Seas. Our figure 

 is copied from a very elegant and perfect specimen which was recently 

 received from Van Dieman*s Land, and which has been lately cap- 

 tured in the immediately adjacent seas. 



The length of this species is twenty-six inches, its habit much 

 resembling that of the Shark tribe, being slender and of a graceful 

 form. The general colour above is a pale brown, beneath whitish ; 

 we have seen one from the same sea that differed only in being 

 rather larger, and the snout of another which must have appertained 

 to a fish yet more considerable in point of magnitude. 



The teeth, which are numerous and of a somewhat triangular 

 form with a short spine in the centre of each, are closely and singularly 

 disposed in rows, the form and disposition of which is shewn at fig.* 

 on one side of the plate. The alternation of the larger and smaller 

 spines on each side the rostrum are an important and peculiar 

 character of this species. 



