NOTES ON SOME AUSTRALIAN SHARKS. 
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Family HE FT BA N CHI I DM . 
Genus Notorynchus Ayres, 1855. 
NOTORYNCHUS CEPEDIANUS (Peron). 
Squalus cepedianus Peron, Voy. Austr. i, 1807, p. 337 and Voy. Terres Austr. ed. 2, ii, 
1824, p. 218. Adventure Bay, Tasmania (Baudin’s expedition). 
Notorynchus macdonaldi Whitley, Rec. Austr. Mus. xviii, June 29, 1931, p. 138, pi. xx, 
figs. 3-5. Manly, New South Wales. Type in Australian Museum. 
I find that Peron named the south-eastern Australian Seven-gilled Shark 
Squalus cepedianus , so his name, published in 1807, and hitherto overlooked, 
must take precedence over my macdonaldi. It is also earlier than Squalus 
platycephalus Tenore 1810, which is generally regarded as the first-named 
seven-gilled shark referable to the genus Notorynchus. Though Peron gave 
sufficient characters for the recognition of his Squalus cepedianus , the same 
cannot be said- of S. rhinophanes, which he named at the same time, and 
which I am unable to identify. Perhaps drawings of these Tasmanian sharks 
still exist amongst the Peron and Lesueur relics in the Havre Museum. 
The seven-gilled shark is not uncommon around the North Island of 
New Zealand, and there is a skin, feet long, from Oriental Bay, in the 
Dominion Museum, Wellington. Mr. Phillipps tells me that the Maoris called 
it Tuatini and used its teeth to make a saw-like instrument {Ripi or Mira 
Tuatina ) for cutting human flesh. 
Family HETERODONT1DJE. 
Genus Heterodontus, Blainville, 1816. 
HETERODONTUS PORTUSJACKSONI (Meyer). 
(Plate XXVII, fig. A.) 
Squalus portus jacksoni, Meyer, Zool. Entdeck. 1793, p. 71, Based on the Port Jackson 
Shark figured in Phillip’s Voyage, p. 166, pi. 42. 
Squalus jacksoni Suckow, Naturges. iv, 1799, p. 102 (fide Sherborn, Index Animalium). Id. 
Turton, Syst. Nat. (Linne), 1806, p. 922. 
Squalus philippi Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth. 1801, p. 134. “ New Holland.” Based 
on Phillip. 
Squalus philippinus Shaw, Gen. Zool. v, 2, Pise. 1804, p. 341. Latinization of “ Squale 
phillip ” of Lacepede. Botany Bay. 
Squalus jacksonii Bullock, Companion Bullock’s Mus. ed. 8, 1810, p. 60. “ This is a new 
species, lately discovered in the harbour of Port Jackson, Botany Bay.” Figured 
in the 1814 edition (Compan. London Mus. ed. 17, 1814, p 90 pi 
figs. 1-2.) 
Acanthias philippi Eichwald, De Selachis, 1819, p. 67. Ex. Bloch and Schneider. 
Cestracion heterodontus Sherrard. Ulustr. Offic. Handbk. Aquar, &c., Melbourne, circa 1896, 
pp. 42 and 88, figs. . Hobson’s Bay, Victoria. 
Heterodontus phillipi Ogilbv. Mem. Qld. Mus. v, 1916, p. 82. Emended orthography. 
The synonyms of the Common Port Jackson Shark are here tabulated 
for the first time. The earliest specific name appeared in Meyer’s Systematisch- 
Summarische Uebersicht der neuesten Zoologischen Entdeckungen in Neuholland 
