The Selachians of Greenland (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Selachians of Greenland During my leadership of the practical-scientific fishery investigations along the colonized part of West Greenland, carried out on board the brig "Tjalfe" for the Danish Ministry of the Interior, in the years 1908 and 1909, I had rich opportunities of studying at first hand the Greenland fish fauna, which previously I had only known from Museum material and the literature. I am thus able to give a fairly acceptable account of the fish-life of this our northern colony. In the following I shall deal with the Selachians, certainly a small yet in several respects an interesting group). In the latest review of the fish fauna of Greenland, that of Dr. E. Vanhöffen in the "Greenland-Expedition der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin", 2. Bd., 1897, p. 129, 4 species of Selachii are mentioned: Centroscyllium Fabricii (Reinhardt), Somniosiis inicrocephalus Block Schneider, Raja radiata Donovan and Raja Fyllae Lütken. In "The Danish Ingolf-Expedition", II, 1, 1898, p. 3 Chr. F. Lütken further describes a new species of ray from the Davis Strait, which he called Raja ingolfiana. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.