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PLATE XVII. 
SQUALUS SQUATINA. 
ANGEL SHARK. 
PISCES CHONDROPTERYGII. 
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 
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, 
W the males. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Pectoral fins large, and notched in front. 
Squalus SuUatina : pinnis pectoralibus maximis anterius emargi- 
natis. Gmelin. Syst. Nat. T . 1 . ]>. 3. 
p. 1503. sp. 4. 
•hqitalus pinna anali nulla, caudae duobus, ore terminali, naribus 
cirrosis. Linn. Syst. Nat. 12. 1 . p. 398. 
