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ON Oct. 2 I had a letter from Mr. George M. King, Superintendent of Water Bailiffs for the River Towy Fishery District, recording the capture of an unusual fish in the Towy on Sept. 30. He enclosed a photograph, here reproduced (Fig. 1), from which it was clear that the fish was Lamna cornubica Gm., the Porbeagle shark. At my request the fish was afterwards sent on to the National Museum of Wales, where it will be mounted.
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MATHESON, C. Porbeagle Shark in the River Towy. Nature 122, 608–609 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122608b0
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