TENTACULATED SHARK. 35() 



Sawfish, and the teeth only seventeen in number 

 on each side : they are also very short, projecting 

 but a very little way beyond the edge of the snout. 

 This supposed species is described from a complete 

 specimen of the animal, preserved in the Leverian 

 Museum : the total length of the specimen is 

 twenty-eight inches, the snout measuring ten. Mr. 

 L. terms this P. microdon. 



TENTACULATED SHARK. 



Squalus Tentaculatus. S. rostro utrinqite tentaculato, spinoso, 



spinis longiorihus brevioribusque intermediis. 

 Shark with serrated snout tentaculated on each side, with short 



teeth interposed between the longer ones. 

 Squalus cirratus. S. rostro cirrato, spinis longioribus ; hrevi-' 



oribusque intermediis. Lath. Lin. Trans. 2. p. 281. 



This rare and curious species constitutes one of 

 the numerous zoological acquisitions obtained by 

 our late voyages to the Southern Hemisphere, 

 having been discovered about the coasts of New- 

 Holland, &c. The specimens hitherto observed 

 have not exceeded the length of about three feet 

 and a half, but it is probable that the animal grows 

 to a far larger size, and indeed this is evident from 

 a snout preserved in the British Museum. In its 

 general shape this fish resembles the rest of the 

 slender Sharks, and is of a pale brown colour above, 

 and whitish beneath : the head is shaped like that 

 of the common Sawfish, but the snout is more 

 slender in proportion : the teeth or processes are 

 very numerous, of unequal size, and are disposed 



