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Poroderma variegatum Andrew Smith, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 5, p. 85. 

 1837 (type locality: Cape of Good Hope) (name only). 



Scyllitim variegatum MiJLiiER and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 14, 1841 

 (Cape of Good Hope). — Andrew Smith, Illustr. zoology of South Africa, 

 Fishes, pi. 25, fig. 2, 1849 (Algoa Bay).— Dum6ril, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr. vol. 

 1, p. 322, 1865 (Cape of Good Hope). — Bleeker, Verh. Akad. Wet. Amster- 

 dam, vol. 18, p. 1, 1879 (Mauritius). 



Sajllium africanum var. variegata GtJNTHER, Cat. fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 

 406, 1870 (type of Scyllium variegatum Miiller and Henle). 



Scyliorhinns variegatus Rex5An, Ann. Natal Gov. Mus., vol. 1, p. 241, 1908 (Bird 

 Island, Natal). 



Poroderma suhmacnlatum Andrew Smith, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1837, p. 85 

 (type locality: Cape of Good Hope) (name only). 



ScylUutn leopardinum (Van Horst) Mullein and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagios- 

 tomen, p. 14, 1841 (name in synonymy). 



Scyllitim maeandrinuni (Rapp) Mulleb and Henle, idem (name in synonymy). 



Depth 8 to 11 to subcaudal origin; abdominal cavity 1%; head 

 5% to 63/2? width 114, broadly depressed. Snout 214 to 21/3 in head, 

 length 11/2 its width; eye 414 to 614 in head, 1% in snout, 2 in inter- 

 orbital; preoral 3% in head; mouth width 2, length 2 to 2% its 

 width ; lower labial fold behind rictus and along lower jaw % man- 

 dibular ramus, absent in young; teeth 60 above, 56 below, tricuspid, 

 median cusp slender and greatly longest; interorbital 2% in head, 

 slightly convex. 



Scales moderate, rough on back and head above, flattened, foliate 

 to weakly tricuspid, with strong median point. 



First dorsal origin over last % of depressed ventral to hind ventral 

 edge; second dorsal inserted little nearer anal origin than subcaudal 

 origin, slightly smaller than first dorsal; anal begins behind de- 

 pressed first dorsal base ; pectoral width ll^ to ly^ its length ; ventral 

 length little greater than pectoral width ; caudal 3% in rest of body, 

 front subcaudal edge 2% in entire fin. 



Back and above drab, with many thick-set white spots, none larger 

 than pupil and extend over unpaired fins and paired fins above. 

 Under surface of body soiled buff. Smaller examples with spots and 

 rings or enclosures. Smallest example fawn color on back, thickly 

 spotted all over with rounded, close set, dusky spots, larger and more 

 or less scattered on sides and on fins. Under surface whitish. 



South Africa, Natal, Mauritius. 



1 example. A.N.S.P. Cape trawl, in 140 fathoms. H. W. Bell Marley. Length, 



970 mm. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 52996. Tegula River, Natal, in 60 fathoms. H. W. Bell Marley, 



1923. Length, 402 mm. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 53139. Natal coast, in 34 fathoms. H. W. Bell Marley. Length, 



250 mm. 



PORODERMA MARLEYI Fowler 



Poroderma marleyi Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 85, p. 234, 

 1934 (type locality: Natal coast, in 20 fathoms). 



