LERNEOPODA. 
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' Syst. Nat./ 1766. The same little animal was a few 
years afterwards described as British ; the Rev. Charles 
Cordiner having figured it in 1780, in his 'Antiquities 
and Scenery of the North of Scotland/ as occurring in 
the gills of the salmon in the rivers of that country, 
especially when the fish is “foul.” 
Another species was afterwards mentioned by the arctic 
voyager Scoresby, in 1820, adhering to the Greenland 
shark. Several specimens were taken by him attached to 
the eye of that animal, and brought home for examination. 
It buries its arm- shaped appendages in the substance of 
the eye to the depth of nearly a fourth part of their length, 
and hangs out externally. The sharks thus attacked seem 
to be rendered blind by their pigmy assailants. “ The 
sailors,” says Captain Scoresby, “imagine this shark is 
blind, because it pays not the least attention to the pre- 
sence of a man, and is indeed so apparently stupid, that 
it never draws back when a blow is aimed at it with a 
knife or lance.” (Arctic Regions, p. 539.) The speci- 
mens brought home by Captain Scoresby were ultimately 
placed in the hands of Dr. Grant, and the species was 
described by him in Dr. Brewster’s ' Edinburgh Journal 
of Science/ in 1827, under the name of Lerncea elongata . 
A species was also figured and described by M. Mayor, 
in the 'Bulletin de la Societe Philomathique/ in 1824; 
and Kroyer, in his ' Tidsskrift/ describes four more new 
species, and found the male of one, of which he gives a 
figure. 
The young have not yet been seen. 
1. Lerneopoda elongata. Tab. XXXY, fig .5. 
Lerncea elongata. Grant , Brewster’s Edinburgh Journ. of Sc., vii, 
147, t. 2, f. 5, 1827. 
Lerneopoda elongata, Kroyer , Tidsskrift, i, t. 2, f. 12, t. 3, f. 3 a. 
— M. Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., iii, 515. 
The Eye of the Greenland Shark, Scoresby, Arctic Regions, i, 
538, t. 15, f. 5. 
Description . — The head is very distinct, of a horny 
