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PORBEAGLE SHARK. 



Squalus Cornubicus. S. corpore crasso tereti, rosfro conico pro- 



minente, Cauda lunata. 

 Shark with thick round body^ prominent conic snout, and 



lunated tail. 



Squalus Cornubicus. S. plica longitudinali ad utrumque caudac 



latus. Lin. Gmel. 

 Porbeagle Shark. Fenn, Brit, ZooL Borl. Comw. 



This species is slightly described by Mr. Pen- 

 nant, in the British Zoology, from an engraving in 

 Borlase's History of Cornwall, which was copied 

 from a drawing by the Revd. Mr. J ago, Minister 

 of Loo in Cornwall, and wdio appears to have been 

 a very observant and skilful ichthyologist ; since 

 many of his communications are preserved in the 

 works of Ray and Petiver. 



A specimen observed in the year l/QS, by the 

 Revd. Dr. Goodenough, on the coast of Hastings, 

 is described in the third volume of the Linnnean 

 Transactions. Its lengthy from the tip of the snout 

 to the extremity of the tail, was three feet ten 

 inches : the colour of the body a deep blue on the 

 back, and white or silvery beneath : the shape was 

 round, except for about six inches from the tail, 

 w^here it was depressed : at about an inch from the 

 tail was a semicircular or lunar fossule or impres- 

 sion, the points of which were towards the tail : 

 where the body was depressed the sides were raised 

 into a sharp angle or elevated line of about eight 

 inches in length, running into the middle of the 

 tail or a little beyond: the nose was prominent 



