MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
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The late A. R. McCulloch made a sketch of a mounted specimen, in the 
Queensland Museum, which he tentatively identified as this species. In his 
card-index, he made the following MS. notes : — 
“It is labelled as C. spenceri Ogil. from Moreton Bay, on the authority of 
Ogilby, but it cannot be that species according to his key in his Queensland 
Check-list, as the length from the vent to the end of the tail is much less than 
that from the vent to the tip of the snout. I regard it as C. stevensi, Ogil., 
but it differs from the description of that species in having the anal inserted 
behind the vertical of the middle of the second dorsal. The types of C. stevensi 
cannot be found in the Queensland Museum ; they were first described as 164-187 
mm. long but in the check -list these measurements are said to be centimetres. 
Iso other specimen appears to be preserved in Qld. Mus. which can be referred 
to either spenceri or stevensi. 
“ Compared with melanopterus and amblyrhyncho[ide]s, this specimen presents 
the following characters : — Length from middle of vent to tip of tail equal to 
distance from vent to about half-way between first gill opening and eye. Eye 
small, longer than deep, its horizontal diameter much less than its distance 
from the nostril, and about half the width of the widest gill opening. Length 
of anterior margin of pectoral fin from base to tip equal to the interspace 
between the eye and the posterior gill-opening. Preoral length equal to about £ width 
of mouth ; snout broadly rounded. Darker above, light below ; fins apparently 
uniform. 
“ This specimen agrees with Waite’s figure of C. brachyurus (Rec*. Austr. 
Mus. vi, pi. 39), and I believe them to represent the same species, whatever 
it may prove to be.” 
To the present writer this specimen appears to represent a northern 
form of the Whaler Shark. The teeth are small, those from middle of side of upper 
jaw serrated and somewhat notched. 
Family SPHYRN1DM. 
Genus Sphykna Rafinesque, 1810. 
SPHYRNA LEWINI (Griffith). 
(Plate XXVIII.) 
Zygcena lewini Griffith, Animal Kingdom (Cuvier) x, 1834, p. 640, pi. L. “ Off the south 
coast of New Holland,” i.e., Sydney, New South Wales. Also spelt Z. lewisii 
by Bleeker, 1854, and Z. leemvini by Gunther, 1870. 
Sphyrna zygcena Studer, Zool. Forsch. Gazelle iii, 1889, p. 263 (Moreton Bay, Queensland). 
Sphyrna tudes Ogilby, Ann. Qld. Mus. ix, Oct. 1908, p. 4. Moreton Bay, Queensland, and 
Tweed Heads, New South Wales. Id. Borodin, Bull. Vanderbilt Mus. i, 1932, 
p. 69 (Southport, Queensland). Not S. tudes Muller and Henle, Syst. Plagiost. 
ii, 1839, p. 53 = Zygcena tudes Valenciennes, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris ix, July 
1823, p. 225, from Mediterranean, Cayenne, and Coromandel. 
Cestracion tudes Ogilby, Mem. Qld. Mus. v, 1916, pp. 82 and 94 (South Queensland Iocs.). 
Head (130 mm.) 4*4 in total length (580). Vent nearer tip of snout 
than that of tail. Head wider than long, the breadth of the “ hammer ” 
being 165 mm. Eye 14 mm. Interorbital 157 (below) to 160 (above the head). 
