hound

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

(sometimes Smooth Hound),the Old World name for all the sharks of the genus Mustelus («the Hell-hound of the Deep» ); appliedspecially in New South Wales and New Zealand to the species Mustelus antarcticus, Guenth., also called Gummy (q.v.).

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