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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    fading to dull white beneath ; ends of all the fins deep black. Iris grey, stained darker superiorly. It may be remarked, as showing the size to which this species attains, that the liver of one at the Government fish-oil factory at Calicut weighed 270 lb. Bob. Seas of India to the Malay Archipelago, and beyond. This form is very common. 12. (12.) Carcharias bleekeri. Carcharias (Prionodon) bleekeri, Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Poiss. i, p. 367. Carcharias bleekeri, Dai/, Fish. India, p. 715 (see synon.). Length of the preoral portion of the snout equal to the width of the mouth. Nosti-ils midway between the end of the snout and the mouth. Teeth the upper triangular with a slightly notched outer border; the lower nearly erect, narrow, and on a broad base. Fills—the doi'sal commences a short distance behind the angle of the pectoral; second dorsal opposite to, nearly as long as, but lower than the anal, and elongated posteriorly. Pectoral with its upper edge 4| to 5 times as long as its lower; caudal one fourth of the total length. Colour—a deep black spot at the lower edge of the end of the pectoral fin; a second at the end of the inferior lobe of the caudal; no black spot on the first dorsal. Hab. East coast of Africa, seas of India. 13. (13.) Carcharias ellioti. Carcharias eUioti, Dai/, Fish. India, p. 716, pi, clxxxix, fig. 2. Puducan or Aduyu-pal soirah, Tamil; Pal sorrah, Tel. Length of the preoral portion of the snout equal to the width of the mouth. A well-developed labial groove along the outer side of the maxilla, and a slight one on the mandible. Eyes rather small. Nostrils rather nearer to the mouth than to the end of the snout. Gin-openings much wider than the orbit. Teeth the upper nearly triangular without any notch or basal enlargement, very coarsely serrated on both edges; those in the mandible obliquely erect, awl-shaped, becoming smaller and more triangular at the angle of the mouth ; the awl-shaped ones have a cusp at either side of the base, below which the outer edge has a few serrations ; the external triangular ones are serrated externally. Fins—the first dorsal commences just behind the root of the pectoral, its base being nearer to it than to the ventral; second dorsal smaller than the first, but larger than the anal, before which it commences. Pectoral falciform, its internal margin J- the length of its outer, the fin reaches to beneath the end of the base of the dorsal. Anal below the last two thirds of the second dorsal. Caudal 3| in the total length. Colour—grey superiorly, becoming nearly white beneath. Hah. Seas of India. At Kurrachee it is not uncommon.