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Figure 44. Raja kyperiorea. A Male illustrated in Fig. 43. B Female illustrated in Fig. 43. C Nasal curtain 

 of same female, about 1.5 X. D Upper teeth of same female near center of jaw, about 3.9 X. £ Nostril of male, 

 illustrated in Fig. 43, about 2.9 X . 



smooth or with a few minute prickles; sides of tail, from base to tip, with a conspicuous 

 belt of closely crowded prickles increasing in density rearward and outlined above by 

 small thorns in some specimens but separated from mid-dorsal row of large thorns by 



