Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) .. . y of the Avell-markedheterocercal type. VOL. 1. B 1. CARCHARIAS. Cuvier, R^gne Anini. ii. p. 125 TIM7) : Miill. & Hen^e, Plagiost. p. 27 (1841) :A. Dum. Hist Poiss. i. p. 341 {ISC>>); Giinth. (:it. Fisli. viii. p. 357 (1870). Mouth crcscentic; teeth with a siiif^le sharp cusp. No dorsal fin opposite to the space hetween pectorals and vcntrals;a ])it at the root of the tail. Temperate and tropical seas. One sj^ecies from the Zamhosi. 1. CARCHARIAS Z.\
Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) .. . y of the Avell-markedheterocercal type. VOL. 1. B 1. CARCHARIAS. Cuvier, R^gne Anini. ii. p. 125 TIM7) : Miill. & Hen^e, Plagiost. p. 27 (1841) :A. Dum. Hist Poiss. i. p. 341 {ISC>>); Giinth. (:it. Fisli. viii. p. 357 (1870). Mouth crcscentic; teeth with a siiif^le sharp cusp. No dorsal fin opposite to the space hetween pectorals and vcntrals;a ])it at the root of the tail. Temperate and tropical seas. One sj^ecies from the Zamhosi. 1. CARCHARIAS Z.\ (Prionndmi) zamhezensis, Pofor^s, I\Ion. Borl. Ac 18.»2. p. 27ti. ainlReise Mossainh. iv. j). 7, )i!. i. WS. 2 ( lSti). Snout very short, with rounded horizontal outline. Anterior borderof mouth on a line with anterior border of e^e. Teeth ^, finely serrated,upper triangular, with the outer border a little concave, lower muchnarrower; a small, non-serrated median tooth. Two gill-openinji^s abovethe pectornl. Anterior dors;il just Ix^hind base of pectoral; second ri^. CnrcJiarias , atlcr IVtors (lieise Mossainh.). \ dois;d a little anterior to, and of the same size as, anal, wliich is moredistant from vent than from caudal. Ventral a little nearer caudal than])ectornl. Caudal as long as distance from end of snout to grey, belly yellowisli wliite. Total length 760 millim. Zambesi, IHO miles from the coast.—Type in Hcrliu Musum. PHTSTTS. Suborder II. HYPO T \l E M ventral, below the base of the pectoral fin. Fam. 1. Mouth inferior. Snout produced into a long flat lamina armed witha series of strong teeth along each edge. No nictitating membrane ;spiracles present, large; 5 gill-openings. Body moderately depressed,elongate. Two dorsal fins, no anal; caudal of the heterocercal type. 1. PRISTIS. Latham, Tr. Linn. Soc. ii. 1794, p. 27G ; Miill. & Henle, Plagiost. p. 105 (1841) ;A. Dnm. Hist. Poiss. i. p. 471 (18G5)
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