Not known to the sealers.

Pupil like that of the shark elliptical, with the long axis vertical.
When the skin was removed the flesh was very fat, resembling that of the eel, had an unpleasant smell, and could not be eaten.

The natives also were averse to eating it, and only one man acknowledged to have seen it before.

Caught by seine, by Corporal Emms of the 51st regiment, 7th April, 1841.

(This fish is also an inhabitant of Queen Charlotte's Sound, New Zealand .-- J.