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According to Garman, this s]iecies is abundant off the eastern coast 
of the I'nited States. 
A young individual, about three and a half feet long, was 
caught in a gill-net at Southampton in July, 1S9.S." 
The food of the porbeagle includes both cei)halopods and fishes. 
Full-grown hakes have been found in its .stomach. Its lanceolate teeth 
are adapted to seizing and holding prey rather than for cutting. 
16. GREAT WHITE SHARK ; MAN-Ex\TER 
Carchayodoi can/iarias ( Linne ) 
Jordan and Everiiiaiiii, ]>. 50. 
Garman, p. 32. 
Closely allied to /sums but with the teetli in both jaws triangular with serrated 
edges and without basal cusps. Color leaden gray. Tips and edges of pectorals 
black. Length 30 feet. 
Carcharodoi carcharias, or "the biter with the jagged teeth," is the 
largest of the mackerel .shark group, and the oid\- true man-eater shark. 
This, according to Linuteus, is the leviathan which swallowed Jonah. So 
far as we can discover, it is throtighout its cosmopolitan range in warm 
.seas, a rare fi.sh. It is occasional on the Atlantic coa.st of the United 
States as far north as Cape Cod, btit we know of no definite record for 
Long Lsland, though Bean includes it in his " Fishes of Long Lsland."'-' 
Two specimens, however, were taken in fish traps at Woods Hole in 
J tine. 1903. 
11- 1901. Bean, /. c. p. 3S0. 
12- /. c. p. 380. 
