GPtEENLAND SHARK. 
Squalus borealis, 
Scymniis borealis, 
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Dalatias microoephalus. 
ScoKESBY; History of the Arctic 
Regions, etc. 
Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 166. 
Jenyns; Manual, p. 506. 
Yakkell; Br. Fishes, vol. ii, p. 527. 
Gray; Catalogue Br. Museum, p. 132. 
At a time when every large example of this family was 
supposed to be the Great mite Shark, so formidable to sailors 
m warm climates, the Greenland Shark had that name affixed 
0 It; and accordingly in Crantz’s history of that country, and 
o her writers of about the same age, we find the Squalus 
in the hst of fishes of those northern seas. It was 
Captain Scoresby m his “History of the Arctic Regions,” to 
whom we are indebted for the first knowledge of it as a separate 
species; and nearly the whole of what is even now knoL of 
Its habits IS due to his observations. 
of^tHs'fhh examining an example 
of this fish our description will be derived from what fhe 
above-n^ed author has given us, ivith additions from the “His- 
toid of British Animals,” by Dr. Fleming; which, taken together 
with a description of the teeth and jaws presently to be referred 
0, will afi-ord matmua s sufficient to enable any one to identify 
the species, if it should chance again to wander to our shores- 
an accident, it is true, not soon to be expected, since only three 
or four instances are recorded of its having appeared so far 
south of the icy sea, and one only on the coast of France- 
driven so far from its accustomed haunts probably by disease- 
which appears to be a not uncommon cause for the presence 
01 fishes in regions where they are strangers 
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