ISABELLA SHARK. 



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gape moderate: teeth of a squarish shape^ com- 

 pressed, cornered at the margins, and placed in 

 several rows : dorsal fins placed near the tail : the 

 first opposite the ventral, which are set at an un- 

 usual distance fi:'om the head, and are almost as 

 large as the pectoral : tail angular. Described by 

 Broussonet fi'om a specimen in the Paris Museum. 

 Native regions uncertain. 



ISABELLA SHARK. 



Squalus Isabella. S. sul^avescerts, dentibus compressis brevUms 



triangularibus basi lobatis. 

 Yellowish Sharks with short compressed triangular teeth lobed 



at the base. 



Squalus Isabella. S. pinna dorsali prima abdominalibus opposita. 

 Lin. Gmel, Brouss. act. Far. 1780. 



Allied in point of habit to the S, Canicula, but 

 with a broader head^ and an obtuse snout : length 

 of the specimen observed, about two feet and a 

 half : colour as mentioned in the specific character : 

 teeth compressed, short, triangular, furnished on 

 each side the base with an accessorial or smaller 

 lobe, and disposed in six rows : tongue very short 

 and thick : dorsal fin subquadr angular ; the second 

 placed opposite the anal fin : pectoral fins very 

 large : ventral separate, and pointed behind. Na- 

 tive of the Southern Pacific, and observed about 

 the coasts of New Zealand, during the voyage of 

 Sir Joseph Banks : described by Broussonet from 

 theMSS. of Dr. Solander. 



