. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. WHITLEY. 235 and Eastern Australian records of menisorrah are referable to this new species, which I name in honour of Mr. George Coates, who has collected many interesting elasmobranchs and large fishes in North Queensland. Scoliodon jordani, Ogilby. (Fig. 8.) The accompanying figure shows a 33 inch female from Lindeman Island, Queensland, caught on 13th August, 1935, with the embryo curled in the. Fig. 8. Scoliodon jordani Ogilby. Female and embryo from Lindeman Island, Queensland G. P. Whitley del. uterus (shaded); a second embryo was u
. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. WHITLEY. 235 and Eastern Australian records of menisorrah are referable to this new species, which I name in honour of Mr. George Coates, who has collected many interesting elasmobranchs and large fishes in North Queensland. Scoliodon jordani, Ogilby. (Fig. 8.) The accompanying figure shows a 33 inch female from Lindeman Island, Queensland, caught on 13th August, 1935, with the embryo curled in the. Fig. 8. Scoliodon jordani Ogilby. Female and embryo from Lindeman Island, Queensland G. P. Whitley del. uterus (shaded); a second embryo was unfortunately destroyed by fishermen. The figured foetus is preserved in the Australian Museum (Regd. No. IA. 6681) together with the head of the mother (IA. 6569). The embryo was 4£ inches curled, but 8£ inches when straightened out. The umbilical cord, 6£ ins. long, was firmly attached to the uterine walls and villi by a boot-shaped or bi-lobed "placenta". There were no external gills. I saw a second specimen of this species at Lindeman Island on 26th August, 1939. The female here figured shows some slight variation in proportions from the males I illustrated in Mem. Qld. Mus., x., 1934, p. 186, figs. 2 and 3, but these differences may be due to sex or variation. Rhizoprionodon crenidens (Klunzinger). Through the kindness of Dr. M. Rauther, I was enabled to see the female holotype of Scoliodon crenidens Klunzinger from Queensland in the Wurttembergische Naturaliensammlung, Stuttgart (No. 2,449), also a second smaller specimen received from Baron von Muller in 1891. The head is somewhat distorted and the teeth are not as noticeably serrated as Klun- zinger 's figure shows, and it is possible that Scoliodon jordani (forma longmani) may be a synonym, except that I have never seen a specimen of jordani with serrated teeth. Approximate measurements of the holotype of crenidens in millimetres are: Head, 120; interorbital, 40; snout to first dorsal, 170; base of first do
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