FEB 9 1899 



NOTES ON SOME EMBRYOS OF CHLAMYDOSELACHUS 

 ANGUINEUS GAR!®, 



By T. HUSHIKAWA. 



Fisheries Bureau, Department of Agriculture and Comnferce, Tokyo. 



With PL IF. 



So far as our present knowledge is concerned Chlamydoselachus anguineus is 

 confined in Japanese waters to the sea of S:tgami ; but we are not able to point 

 out the precise part where the shark lives. "We only know that it is occasional- 



* Having bepn asked to look thron sh and prepire for publication Mr. NisniKAw»'a 

 manuscript on the embryoi of ChlamydoMla.'-hiix, I have prepared \h* following notes, wl ich 

 though confessedly f'ragnipn'firy, rlfserve t orhaps to l e put on record as referring to a rallier 

 rare form. Th" n anu'cript had been finished in Fune of the last yi & r , and henciBo reference 

 is made to Collï; t's paper recen'ly p tl dished (On fUtlami/doselaclms anguineus A remark- 

 able Shark found in Norway.) Mr. iN'istiikawa tells me, however, that tin- female genital 

 organs of Chlumydoselachus are essentially like 'hose of other sharks, and I can confirm his 

 statement from a passing examination of a specimen brought some time ago to my laboratory. 

 Colijett's description of these organs appears to me irrelevant.— S. Goto. 



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