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PLATE LXXXI1. 
SQUALUS ACANTHIAS. 
PICKED SHARK, or DOG FISH . 
* PISCES CHONDROPTERYGII. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head obtuse. Spiracles from 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 
of 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 round the vent, or genitalia, 
in the males. 
# Section. With temporal orifices , and no anal fin. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Fuscous-grey, beneath white: body roundish: two dorsal fins 
with an anterior spine each. 
Squalus Acanthias: fusco-cinereis, subtus albus : corpore tere- 
tiusculo, pinnis binis dorsalibus antice unispinosis. 
SftUALus Acanthias: pinnis dorsalibus spinosis, corpore subtus 
albus. 
