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TAXONOMIC NOTES ON SHARKS AND RAYS.
By Gilbert P. Whitley.
{By Permission of the Trustees of The Australian Museum.)
(Plates xx.-xxii. and text-figs. 1-18.)
In preparing a popular handbook to the sharks and rays of Australia
which, it is hoped, will soon be submitted to the Royal Zoological Society
of New South Wales for printing, I have come across several noteworthy
synonyms, new species, and other technical details which would better
appear in another publication, and are accordingly assembled here.
Since "Notes on Some Australian Sharks" was published in the Memoirs
of the Queensland Museum, Vol. x., 1934, pp. 180-200, I have collected
further specimens in Queensland, on the Middleton and Elizabeth Reefs,
and in Western Australia, and have examined specimens and literature
in New Zealand, England, Europe, and the United States. My thanks are
extended to all the many friends and colleagues who helped me, both in
the field and in museums and libraries. I am indebted to Miss Joyce
Allan and Miss Mary Soady for their artistic and accurate illustrations,
and to Mr. G. C. Clutton for photographs.
References to literature, not repeated in these notes, will be found in
McCulloch's Check-List of the Fishes recorded from Australia (Austr.
Mus. Mem., v., 1929) , or in the Memoirs of the Queensland Museum already
quoted.
Family Heterodontidae.
Genus Heterodontus Blainville, 1816.
Blainville's original description is not available in Australia, but I
copied it out in London, as follows:
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