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beards or cirrhi : habit similar to that of Canicula 

 and some others, but with the body shorter, and 

 the tail longer in proportion : pectoral fins large : 

 both the dorsal rather small : tail finned to a great 

 distance beneath the tip, which is of an ovate shape. 

 Native of the Indian seas, growing to the length 

 of fifteen feet : said to feed chiefly on testaceous 

 and crust aceous marine animals. Sometimes the 

 variegations are rather of a pale rufous cast than 

 white. First described by Artedi, from a specimen 

 in the collection of Seba, in the third volume of 

 whose Thesaurus it is elegantly figured. : 



GRONOVIAN SHARK. 



Squalus Gronovianus, S. griseus^ supra nigro maculatus^ rostro 

 rottmdato. 



Grey Shark, spotted above with black, and with rounded 

 snout. 



Squalus Indicus. S. dorso mrio inermi^ dentihus acutiSt Lin, 

 Gmel. Gron. Mus. l»n, 133. 



Colour grey, with the head and back spotted 

 with black: dorsal fins nearer the tail than the 

 ventral ones, and very distant from each other : 

 snout rounded: teeth sharp, and placed in seven 

 rows in both jaws : tail consisting of an undivided 

 lobe : native of the Indian seas : described bv 

 Gronovius: size not mentioned. • 



