FISHES. CHONDROPTERIGIOUS. 68. Squalus. 
Head broad, fiat and fioping on the fore-part ; wouth tranf- 
vcrfc, with 2 cirri; upper Up thick, prominent; teeth nn- 
nute, thole in the upper jaw moveable, and rough like a 
rafp ; tonjrue thick, (hort; yet fmall, oblong, pupil blue, 
iris black ; belly broad ; feBoral fins fhprt, broad ; firft dor- 
fal oppofitc the ventral, lecond the ana! ; tail comprefled 
each fide, thin like a leaf at the end, the fin long and notched 
at the tip. 
Body with 7 p.arallel, longitudinal, blackifli bands above. 
Iilhabits the African ocean ; 2 j feet long ; body covered witli 
minute fubquadrate leaks, above glaucous, beneath whitifli. 
Head a little broader than the body, depreffed ; eyes oblong, 
iris greenilh ; temporal orifice thrice as fmall as the eyes ; 
viou% femicircular ; teeth comprelfed, long, acute, the upper 
in tranfveile, lower in oblique rows ; palate, and tongue 
with a few fofl tubercles; at the nojlrUs are a lobes, one of 
which is larger and nearly clofes them ; peEloraL fins hori- 
zontai; ventral nearly triangular, oblique at the tip; anal 
obloric .-oi I nded on the fore-part, pomted.behmd ; firft der- 
fal b<‘ld,id the middle of the back, lecond oppohte the hind- 
part of the anal ; tail rounded, or rather cut obliquely. 
^^(l^atus. Each fide tlic neck a large round black blotch, furrounded 
^ with white. rr „ J , r 
Inhabits the Pacific ocean and Nezo Holland: 2| feet long; 
body long, cinereous, dotted, beneath greenifir-alh. 
Head ftiort, without fpots ; eyes fmall, oblong, ; temporal on- 
ifee oblong; teeth numerous, fmall, compreffed, lharp, di- 
laled at the bafe ; nofirils near the end of the fnout, nearly 
clofed by a fmall flap ; 2 hinder /piracies approximate ; fcc- 
toral and ventral fins rounded, blackifh, cinereous at the 
edge, the latter placed before the middle of the body ; firft 
d^fal fin behind the anal, notched behind, and marked on 
the anterior edge with 2 black fpots, the other a little lefs ; 
anal near the notched tail. 
Head very broad, hammer-fliaped, , - 
Inhabits the Mediterranean, American and Indian feas ; grotes 
to 6 feet long, and to the weight of 500 pounds; is 
the moft rapacious of all Us tribe; brings 10 la young at 
one birth. 
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