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GALETD.5]. 
RHIZOPRION gen. nov. 
Teeth in tlie jaws similar, oblique, with a smooth median ensp and serrated, 
enter base, root; rrpiioVj saw.) 
Type: — Carcharin^ (Scoliodon) croiulrns Klunzinger.'^" 
This is the most common of all the smaller galeids on our coast, and has 
the right of inclusion in the New South Wales fauna, the Endeavour” having 
trawled a specimen off Cape Byron. It is very distinct from ScoUodon aciituSj^^ 
in the synonymy of which Garman has placed it. 
CARCHARHINUS AMBLYRHYNCHOS (Bleeker).i« 
I have much ph'asure in adding this rare shark to the Qiueensland fauna, . 
Er. Ilamlyn-IIarris having collected a specimen at Cape Bowling-green, N.Q. 
It is a young female and measures 605 millim. 
PRISTID.E. 
PRISTIS MICRODON Latham. 
Two rostra from ^loreton P)ay in the Queensland iMuseum belong to this 
species as described by Garman. As fai* as these specimens are concerned it is 
much to be regi’etted that we have to use Latham’s name, for they are without 
exception the most murderous weapons of the sort that I have yet seen ; of 
exceptionally heavy build, and bearing enormously long, strong, and trenchant 
teeth, they are the very antitln^sis of the more slender and graceful rostrum of 
P. zysronP These are the pair recorded by me"^ some time ago as P. zci)liyrcusf^ 
a species Avhich Garman makes synonymous with P. microdon. 
RHtXOBATlD.E. 
RHINOBATUS ARMATUS Giay.^^ 
An examination of several sj)ecimens of the common shovelnose shark” 
()f the iMoreton Bay fislieniuhi shows that the East Australian species is R, 
armaixis Gray not R. yranulaiifs Cuvier-'* as has been supposed. The two 
Sitz. Akad. tVien, Ixxx, i, 1879, p. 426, with figure of teeth. 
Riippell, Xeue AVirbeltli. Abyss., Piscdi., 1S2S, p. 65, pi. xviii, fig. 4. 
Tijds. Xederl, Jnd., x, 1856, p. 467. 
■"Trans. Linn. Soe., ii, 1794, p. 280, pi. xxvi, fig. 4. 
Garman, ibid., p. 265. 
■VPdeekor. Kat. Tijds. Xederl. Tnd., ii, 1851, p. 442. 
Ann. (^ueensl. iMus., iNlo. 9, 1908, ]>. 4. 
-^Jordan &: Starks. Proe. Calif. Acad. Sci., 1895, p. 383. 
In Hardwieke, Ilustr. Ind. Zoo)., ii, 1834, pi. xeix. 
Rogne Anim., ed. 2, ii, 1829, }>. 396. 
