FISHES. CHONDROPTERIGIOUS. 68. SqualtiS. 
68. SQUALUS. I/ead obtufe : 
4 — 7, femilunar, at the fides of 
neck : ^'es oblong, vertical, half 
vered, placed before the 
orifices: mouth beneath, in the fof«; 
part of the head; teeth numero^^[ 
ferrate, unequal, lharp, partly 
able, partly fixed : oblong, roufl^' 
ilh, rough with very tender prickle® ’ 
ventral fins generally lefs than 
peftoral, approximate 
round the vent. 
This dreadful and rapacious trihe arc inhabitants of the fe* 
and are rarely found in the Baltic : they fliinc by nigW> 
have a tapering fubcoraprell'ed body, wliich in Ibme 
grows to an enormous bulk, weighing from rooo to 
pounds ; their ilefh Ls hard, tough and rank ; from th« ‘‘ 
is extrafted a large quantity of oil ; the fkin is uled f^'' 
riage-traces, and for polifliing wood, ivory, &c. ; a 
them are gregarious and feed on mollutca: and other 
worms, but moil are fblitary, wandering, devouring 
corncs in their way, acid following Ihrps to feize any 
which may happen to be thrown overboard; they ^ 
forth the young alive, more than one at a time, each o( ^ 
enclofed in a fquwe, pellucid,, horny cafe, terminated a' ||y 
4 corners by very long {lender filaments, which are 
twilled round cowlUnes, fea-weed, or other fixed fubd^ 
A. ff^ilh temporal orifice and anal fn. 
JJabelia, Firft dorfal fin oppofite the abdominal. 
Inhabits Neio Zealand: 2| feet long ; body fpotted with 
beneath whitiCh, a little depreffed, refembfes S. canic'^'® 
except in the pofition of the dorfal fin, and having th^ 
more denrefled. 
