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Galeus Mustelus* 



Tab. II. Fig. 3. 



0. Dorso plumbeo-nigricante ; ventre sub-argenteo al- 

 bido. 



TccMog, Arist. Hist. anim. vi. c. 10. 



Galeus laevis. Rond. de pis. mar, 375. cnm icone. 



MusTELUs Isevis primus. Will. Icth, 60. 



Smooth or unprickly hound. Raj. Syn. pis. 22. 



Squalus mustelus. Linn. Si/st. Nat, 400. 



Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 1492. 13. 



Smooth shark. Penn. Brit. Zool. 3. 116. tab. 16. 



SqIjalus mustelus, or murloch. Neill, Wern, 

 Trdns. vol. i. p. 549. 

 toNG. Corp. — Pedes sex. 

 Habitat — in Oceano Europaeo. 



Descr. Caput acuminatum sub-rotundatum. Pinn/B 

 pectorales supra nigricans, parte inferiore marginibusque 

 posticis albis. Pinnae ventrales et anales albidse. Cauda 

 sub-fusco-nigricans, margine inferiore griseo-testaceo aut 

 dilutioje. Pinna dorsalis atlantalis * sub-plurtibeo-cineras- 

 centi-nigricans, margine postico saturatiore, basi antice 

 posticeque albido. Pinna dorsalis sacralis cinereo- 

 nigricans. 



A specimen of this species was taken hy the 

 NewhaVen fishermen last June, having been acci- 

 dentally found entangled in their nets ; it was a 

 female, and measured from the inial to the sacrai 



* Pinna dorsalis antica auctorurrtr 

 t Pinna dorsalis postica auctorym. 



