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CHLAMYDOSELACHUS ANGUINEUS, Garm., 
A REMARKABLE SHARK 
FOUND IN NORWAY 1896 
BY R. COLLETT 
WITH 2 PLATES 
n the Autumn of 1896, the Zoological Museum of the Christiania 
University received a specimen of a large kind of shark, which 
in many respects, is the most noteworthy addition to the Nor- 
wegian fauna that has been obtained of late decennaries. 
In the month of August of that year, a strange sort of fish 
was caught at Buggones in the Varanger Fjord, it having become 
entangled in a net which had been set at a depth of some 150 
fathoms. The specimen was conveyed to.Vadsg, and taken on board 
the corvette ,Ellida*, which was stationed there at the time, and 
purchased by Commander Salvesen of that vessel, who forwarded it 
to the University Museum. 
It proved to be a Chlamydoselachus anguineus, one of the most 
remarkable of all existing sharks, a species which has but lately been 
discovered and described, and of which only some few individuals 
have hitherto been met with. As the name implies, the body is of 
a lengthened, snake-like form, and the opercular flaps are different 
to those of all other species of shark, in that they are continuous 
and free across the isthmus, where they form a connected fold 
embracing the head as if with a collar. 
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