Rhinidæ.

Spiracles wide behind the eyes. Nostrils with skinny flaps on the margin of the snout. Teeth conical, pointed, distant. Dorsal fins without spines on the tail; no anal. Temporal and tropical seas.

Rhina squatina, Port Jackson. "Angel Shark."

Body depressed, flat. Mouth anterior. Pectoral fins large, expanded, in the plane of the body, with the basal portion prolonged forwards, but not grown to the head. Gill openings rather wide, lateral partly covered by the base of the pectoral spiracles.