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Genus CXXXI. Squalus. — Lin, Syjl. Nat. 
Port Jackson Shark. 
The length of the fpecimen from which the drawing 
was taken, is two feet ; and it is about five inches and 
an half over at the broadeft part, from thence tapering 
to the tail : the fkin is rough, and the colour, in gene- 
ral, brown, paieft on the under parts : over the eyes on 
each fide is a prominence, or long ridge, of about three 
inches ; under the middle of which the eyes are placed : 
the teeth are very numerous, there being at leaft ten or 
eleven rows ; the forward teeth are fmall and fliarp, 
but as they are placed more backward, they become 
more blunt and larger, and feveral rows are quite flat 
at top, forming a kind of bony palate, fomewhat like 
that of the Wolf-fifh ; differing, however, in lliape, being 
more inclined to fquare than round, which they are in that 
fifh : the under jaw is furniflied much in the fame 
manner as the upper : the breathing holes are five in 
number, as is ufual in the genus : on the back are two 
fins, and before each ftands a Itrong fpine, much as in 
the Prickly Hound, or Dog, fifh : it has alfo two pectoral, 
and two ventral fins ; but befides thefe, there is likewife 
an anal fin, placed at a middle diftance between the lail 
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