The New International Encyclopædia/Tope (shark)

TOPE. A small European shark (Galeorhinus galeus) . It is represented on the Western American coast by the so-called ‘oil’ or ‘soup-fin’ shark (Galeorhinus zyopterus), about six feet long and gray with black-edged dorsals. The name is also given to the related small dog-shark (Mustelus canis) of the North Atlantic. See Plate of Lampreys and Dogfish.