Volume 1

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford. Fishes. VolsI & II / by Francis Day.

Date:
1889
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Credit: The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford. Fishes. VolsI & II / by Francis Day. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    14. (14.) Carcharias murrayi. Carcliarias inurrayi, Giinther, A. M. N. II. (5) xi, p. 137 (1883); Day, Fish. India, Supplement, 1888, p. 809. Snout stort and obtuse; the distance between the mouth and the end of the snout being less than that between the inner angles ot the nostrils. Nostrils nearly midway between the end of the snout and the mouth. Teeth-in the upper jaw of moderate size, the anterior equilateral, rather longer than broad, those on the side oblique with the posterior edge concave and both edges linely serrated; twenty-nine rows in the lower jaw, lanceolate, their edo-es smooth, with a broad base, two-rooted, and some with an additional minute lobe, i^ms—first dorsal commences opposite the axil of the pectoral; the second only one third the size of the first, but conspicuously larger than the anal, which is small. Origin of anal behind that of the second dorsal. Pectoral large, exceeding the distance between the first gill-opening and the end of the snout; the length of its hind margin only one fourth of that of its outer. Caudal of moderate length, rather longer than the distance between the two dorsal fins. Colour—uniiovm, top of first dorsal appears to have been black. . Eal). Kurrachee, where an example 6 feet 8 inches long was captured. Tbe specimen, which is in the British Museum, is stufEed and not in a very good condition; it seems only to differ from 0. ellioti in the size of the second dorsal and anal fins. 15. (15.) Carcliarias meuisorrali. Carcharias (Prionodon) menisorrali, (Val.) Midi. ^ Menle, Plagios. p. 46, t, xvii. . „ 1 1 • a -I Oarcharias menison-ah, Day, Fish. India, p. ^6, pi. clxxxiv, lig. 1 (see synon.) Karamoottee soirah and Ciffa sorrah, Tel.; Nga man nee, AiTacan. Preoral portion of snout nearly or quite as long as the mouth is wide; the width of the head equals the distance from the angle ot the mouth to the end of the snout. A very small groove at the angle of the mouth extending a short distance on to the upper jaw. r^e;7i_twenty-eightin the upper jaw ; they are oblique, triangular, notched externally, and serrated in the whole extent of their cusps ; lower teeth erect,'slender, lanceolate, not serrated, and havmg broad bases. J'nw—pectoral not so long as head, one fifth longer than broad at its extremity, it is scarcely emarginate, its inner margin equals about half the length of the outer; base of the second dorsal slightly more than half of that of the first dorsal, it is opposite, and almost as large as the anal. Posterior end ot the dorsal fin at the same distance from the ventrals as its anterior end is from the root of the pectoral. Upper edge of the cauda almost straight, its length being slightly more than the interval between its base and the origin of the ventral. CoZowr—grey above,