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reported doubtfully from the northern side of the inner part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 but it has never been reported from the Nova Scotian shelf east of the offing of Halifax, 

 and it is so rare on the Newfoundland Banks that only a single specimen was taken among 

 the many Skates of other kinds during the trawling experiments of the Newfoundland 

 Fisheries Research Committee during the years 193 i — 1934. "' To the westward and 

 southward it occurs regularly, if in small numbers (p. 270), along the upper part of the 

 continental slope in the offing of southern New England, of New York, and of New 

 Jersey"^ within the appropriate depth-zone. One has also been taken at the edge of 

 the continental shelf off northern Virginia,^" one off Chesapeake Bayi^" at 104 fathoms, 

 and one off Charleston, South Carolina, in 478 fathoms. "' 



Synonyms and References: 



Raja^^^ senta Garman, Proc. U. S. nat. Mus., 8, 1885: 43 (descr., Provincetown, Mass., and LaHave Bank, 

 Nova Scotia); Goode and Bean, Smithson. Contr. Knowl., jo, 1895: 508; also, Mem. Harv. Mus. 

 comp. Zool., 22, 1896: 508 (LaHave Bank, by ref. to Garman, 1885); Jordan and Evermann, Bull. 

 U. S. nat. Mus., 47 (i), 1896: 71 (descr., Newfoundland Banks to C. Cod); Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. 

 (1895), 1896: 221 (listed, Newfoundland Banks to C. Cod); Garman, Mem. Harv. Mus. comp. Zool., 

 24, 1899: 380 (depth, local.); Schmitt, Monogr. d'Anticosti, 1904: 283 (doubtful rep. N. shore Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence near Anticosti); Kendall, Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 7 (8), 1908: 12 (C. Cod 

 Bay by ref. to Garman, 1885); Proc. Portland Soc. nat. Hist., 2, 1909: 207 (Labrador [.'] by ref. to 

 Schmitt, 1904); Engelhardt, Abh. bayer. Akad. Wiss., Suppl. 4 (3), 1913: 102 (range); Garman, Mem. 

 Harv. Mus. comp. Zool., 36, 1913: 328, pi. 25, fig. i (descr., ill., off New England); Halkett, Check 

 List Fish. Canad., 1913: 42 (listed, Labrador [.^], Newfoundland Banks to C. Cod); Bigelow and Welsh, 

 Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 40, 1925: 65 (descr., ill., old records); Breder, Field Bk. Mar. Fish. Atlant. Coast, 

 1929: 31 (ill., Newfoundland to C. Cod); Jordan, Manual Vert. Anim. NE U. S., 1929: 16 (diagn.); 

 Jordan, Evermann and Clark, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (1928), 2, 1930: 25 (listed, Newfoundland Banks 

 to C. Cod); Schroeder, Bull. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 58, 1931: 2 (depth, temp., season, nos.. Gulf of 

 Maine and Georges Bank); Prefontaine, Trans, roy. Soc. Canad., Sect. 5 (3) 2y, 1933: 257 (depth, 

 type of bottom, estuary of St. Lawrence R.); Anon., Rep. Newfoundland Fish. Res. Comm. (1933), 2 

 (2), 1934: 215 (listed, SW. part of Newfoundland Bank); Bigelow and Schroeder, Canad. Atlant. Fauna, 

 I2e, 1934: 33 (descr., LaHave Bank, Gulf of Maine); Vladykov and McKenzie, Proc. N. S. Inst. Sci., 

 ig, 1935: 51 (depth, LaHave and Emerald banks); Bigelow and Schroeder, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 48, 

 1936: 324, 325 (Gulf of Maine locals., depths); Vladykov, Nat. canad., 6j, 1936: 220, 221 (egg cases, 

 season, depth, estuary of St. Lawrence R. and Bay of Fundy) ; Bigelow and Schroeder, Biol. Bull. Woods 

 Hole, j6, 1939: 309 (Gulf of Maine) ; Vladykov, Contrib. 17, Dept. Pech. Quebec, 1946: 26 (in stom- 

 achs of White Whale, estuary St. Lawrence R.). 



Raja species Vladykov and Tremblay, Nat. canad., 62, 1935 : 79 (apparently same specimens rep. by Vladykov, 

 1936). 



Raja spinicauda Jensen 19 14 

 Figure 59 



Study Material. Male, 1,236 mm long, nearing sexual maturity, taken off Bonavista 

 Bay on the east coast of Newfoundland at Lat. 48°47' N, Long. 52°47' W, from be- 



147. Earlier characterizations of it as ranging to the Newfoundland Banks appear to reflect a failure to realize that LaHave 

 Bank (one of the type localities of the species) actually lies off southeastern Nova Scotia. 



148. Taken by Caryn in three hauls near Lat. 39^55' N, Long. 7o°4o' W, June and October 1948; in five hauls by 

 Albatross III between Long. 67°io' and 72°2o' VV in the 100-240 fathom zone, May 1950; also one specimen 

 from off New York, in U. S. National Museum; and other specimens seen from offshore trawling stations. 



149. Lat. 37°36' N, Long. 74°i5' W. 150. Lat. 37°03' N, Long. 74°3i' W. 

 151. Albatross Sta. 2677, Lat. 32°39' N, Long. 76°5o' W. 152. Also spelled Rata. 



