On a specimen of shark in the Museum of the Royal Society, Van Diemen's Land.
When at Hobart Town in December 1852, in the " Equestrian," convict ship, I noticed some fine specimens of sharks in the Museum there : one in particular, peculiar to the coast of Australia and New Zealand, which I identified as belonging to the genus Lamna, and which I marked Lamna cornub...
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1855
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.utas.edu.au/19360/ https://eprints.utas.edu.au/19360/1/15-1855-Cross-Shark-Museum-Royal-Society.pdf |
| Summary: | When at Hobart Town in December 1852, in the " Equestrian," convict ship, I noticed some fine specimens of sharks in the Museum there : one in particular, peculiar to the coast of Australia and New Zealand, which I identified as belonging to the genus Lamna, and which I marked Lamna cornubica giving the specimen the same specific appellation as our English Porbeagle shark. There is the spine, tail, and jaws of the fish in the Museum the last remarkable for its armature of long, thick, nail-like teeth, and the pointed form of the snout hence the shark is called in Muller and Keule's classification, Oxyrhina gomphodon,—it is the Tilueron of the Spaniards, a species of it being found in the Mediterranean, but not of the formidable dimensions of the Australian variety. Alexander Cross was ships surgeon on the third voyage of the 'Equestrian' , a convict transport ship that departed Plymouth on 1 September 1852 and arrived, 106 days later, in Hobart on 16 December 1852. |
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