‘THE LONG TAILED SHARK, 
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The Long Tailed Shark, or Sea Ape '*< 
This fpecies has obtained its name from the extraordi- 
* ar y length of its tail, which generally exceeds that of 
body, the upper lobe extending greatly beyond the 
lower, almoft in a ftraight line. Its fifli has an abo- 
■tiinable fetid, and rank fmell, refembling that of the 
land fox f . The body is more thick and round than any 
the {harks ; the fnout is {harp ; and a little below is a 
l^all mouth, furnifhed with pointed teeth. The colour 
a bove is cinereous, below white. Rondeletius afferts, 
^t he was an eye witnefs of this animal allowing its 
young to retreat into its belly to avoid danger; for he 
an old one differed upon the fliore, in the body of 
"'Idch were all its young. At firft he imagined that 
had been devoured by the parent in place of food ; 
^ ut upon examining them, they were all alive, and fo 
e *Hirely unhurt, that there could remain hardly any doubt 
°‘ their having fled there as a refuge from danger %. 
extraordinary length of the tails of the young, forms 
n ° objection to this fa£t; for at that age they are foft and 
pliant. Willoughby fuppofes that this filh was only found 
!" t l‘ e Mediterranean-, it has flnce, however, been taken 
the Bnti/h leas S. 
The 
^ u lpes Marina, Rond. Sea-fox or Ape, Willougb.. 
t Salvianus. } De Pifcibus, 
^umant’s Britdh Zoology. 
