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Female f 



PANTHER SHARK. 



Squalus Canicula. S. cinereo-rufescens, maculis ocellaribus 

 nigncantibuSj capite hrem, naso suhacuminate, pinnis venfralibus 

 discretis, 



Cinereo-rufescent Shark, with ocellated blackish spots, short 



head, slightly pointed snout, and distinct ventral fins. 

 Squalus Canicula. S. mrius, pinnis ventralibus discretis. Block, 

 112.? 



Spotted Dog-Fish. Fenn, Brit. ZooL 



Length from three to four feet: habit rather 

 more slender than that of the preceding fish : head 

 rather small : snout prominent and slightly point- 

 ed : body cylindric : skin rough : colour of the 

 whole animal pale brown, with a slight rufous cast, 

 and marked with numerous groupes of blackish or 

 dusky spots, not ill resembling in their form those 

 on the skin of a panther : abdomen whitish, with a 

 slightly silvery cast : both dorsal fins situated at a 

 vast distance from the head : ventral fins separate, 

 and rather broad, with a squarish outline : tail as 

 in the preceding. Native of the European seas, 

 preying on the smaller fishes, crabs, &c. in the 

 same manner as the preceding species, of which it 

 is by some considered as the female. 



V. V. p. II. 



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