PLATE CVIII. 
SQUALUS CORNUBICUS. 
PORBEAGLE SHARK. 
****** PISCES CHONDROPTERIGIL 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head obtuse. Spiracles four to seven, placed on the side of the neck, 
and semilunar. Eyes oblong, vertical, half covered, and situated 
before the temporal orifices. Mouth beneath, in the anterior part 
■®f the head: teeth numerous, serrated, acute, partly moveable, 
partly fixed, and unequal. Body oblong, roundish, and rough, 
■with tender prickles. Ventral fins for the most part smaller than 
the pectoral, approximate; and situated near the vent, or genitalia, 
>n the males. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Snout projecting, conic, and porous each side : posterior part of 
the body depressed, and angulated. 
Squalus Cornubicus : rostro prominente conico, lateribus minute 
perforato, corpore postice depresso angulato. 
Swalus Cornubicus: plica longitudinal! ad utrumque caudae 
latus. Gmel. Linn. Syst. Nat. T. 1 . p. 3 . 1497 . 
Squale nez. Broussen. Act. Paris, 1780 . p. 667. n. 16 . 
■Porbeagle. Borlas. Cornub. 265 . t. 26 . n 4 . 
Porbeagle. Penn. Brit. Zool. v. 3. p. 117. n, 49. 
Peaumaris Shark. Penn. Brit. Zool. v. 3. p. 118 . n. 50. Lwtt, 
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