FISHES. CHONDROPTERIGIOUS. 68. Squalus. 
Upper jazo much longer than the other and blunt at the end ; 
ne;ir the threat a fhort fort of whale-bone ; firft dorfal fin 
very large, nearer the head ; ventral oppolite the (ecbnd dor- 
lil and very fmall ; tail large, upper part much longer than' 
the lower ; colour above deep leaden, belly ■white. 
*^‘irckd. 
^ias. 
Teeth triangular, ferrate. White S. 
Inhabits the deeps of almoA: every fca ; is the moft dreadful and 
voracious of all animals ; preys on every thing which cornea 
in its way, even its own tribe, and has been known to fwal- 
low a man whole ; grows fometime to 30 feet long,; body 
light cinereous. _ , , . 
Bead deprefled, broad and thin on the fore- part, and ending in 
a ihort point ; eyes lateral, final!, roundilh, and furnifhed 
with a white cartilaginous niftitant membrane ; iris pale ci- 
nereous ; noftrils double, half covered with a membrane ; 
mouth very large, and furniQaed with about 6 rows of teeth ; 
tongue thick, ihort, broad, cartilaginous ; fns browniih, in 
the youno fifii with a blackilh fpot at the angle ; /.ciScraf 
vaftly large ; firft dorfal before the middle of the body, 
rounded on the upper part, the fecOnd before the anal, and 
placed midwa:y between the ventral and tail ; ventral fmall ; 
tail long, 2-lobed. 
Body co'Vered ovef with large mucronatc tubercles. 
Inhabits the Ocean: 4 feet long ; tubercles unequal, broad and 
rounded at the bafe, muefonate or bimucronate at the tip and 
a little recurved. a , r r 
tyes hr'i'e ; fnout prominent, conic ; nojtrils placed before the 
eyes teeth nearly iquare^ compreflei. ar.gulate at the edge, 
in many rows ; /piracies 5 ; dorfal fins near the tail, the firft 
a little larger ; peSloral large ; tail angular. 
Mr 
'°'nthias Dorfal fins'fpmous ; body roundKh. 
2. Body ocellate 
Picked Dcg-ffh. 
Inhabits moft feas ; about 3 1 feet long ; body above biackifh, 
dotted fpariagly with white, the hdes whit^ 
violet, with a few angulate tranfverie furrows, beneath 
white ; the flefli is often laited and eaten. 
Bead 
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