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Disk subcircular, shorter than tail. Tail moderate, with well- 

 developed lateral folds. Snout strong, produced, rigid with age. 

 Rostral cartilages elongate, stout, broad, trough- or shovel-shaped. 

 Mouth transverse, protractile. Teeth in nari'ow bands on skin, which 

 loosely attached to jaws. Front nasal valves united in broad, free 

 edged flap reaching mouth; hind valves feebly developed. Spiracles 

 close behind orbits or at short space behind, with or without fringe 

 of papillae. Ventrals distinct, inserted below pectoral ends. 



Tropical Atlantic and Indo Pacific. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a^. Spiracles close behind eye. 

 &\ Spiracles without papillae, 

 c^. Brown, spotted with darker above. 



d\ First dorsal origin opposite ends of ventral bases maculata 



d^ First dorsal origin little behind ends of ventral bases timlei 



c'. Uniform brown above brunnea 



b'. Spiracles with rudimentary papillae lingula 



al Spiracles at least an orbital diameter behind orbit, without papillae. 



tasmauiensis 

 NARCINE MACULATA (Shaw) 



Raja maculata Shaw, General zoology, vol. 5, pt. 2, p. S16, 1804 (type locality: 

 Indian Seas; on Temeree Russell, Fishes of Coromandel, vol. 1, p. 1, pi. 1, 

 1803, Vizagapatam). 



Narcobatus maculata Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, vol. 8, p. 121, 1816 

 (name only). 



Narcine maculata Dum^kh,, Rev. Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 4, p. 274, 1852 (Java) ; 

 Hist. Nat. Elasmobr. vol. 1, p. 518, pi. 11, figs. 2-2a (nostrils, mouth, teeth), 

 1865 (Java specimen). — Fowleb, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, 

 p. 500, 1930 (reference). 



Narcme indica Henle, tjber Narcine, p. 35, pi. 2, fig. 2, 1834 (type locality: 

 Tranquebar coast). — Muixee and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 

 130, 1841 (Tranquebar). — Cantoe, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, p. 1399, 

 1849 (Sea of Pinang). — Jekdon, Madras Journ. Lit. Sci., vol. 17, p. 148, 

 1851.— Bleekeb, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Plagiost.) vol. 24, p. 50, 1852 

 (Pinang) ; (Bengal) vol. 25, p. 9, 1853 (on Temeree Russell). — Dum^btl^ 

 Rev. Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 4, p. 274, 1852 (Pondichery) ; Hist. Nat. Elas- 

 mobr., vol. 1, p. 517, pi. 11, figs. 2^2a (nostrils, mouth, teeth), 1865 (Pondi- 

 cherry; type of Narciite microphthalma) . — Day, Fishes of Malabar, p. 276, 

 1865.— Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, 1913, p. 299, 1913 

 (Pinang). — Fo\vler, List Fish. Malaya, p. 14, 1938 (reference). 



Narcine microphthalma (Valenciennes) Dum£:bil, Rev. Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 4. 

 (Pinang). — Fowleb, List. Fish. Malaya, p. 14, 1938 (reference). 



Disk about half total length, subovate, broader than long, greatest 

 width equals space from snout to vent. Snout moderate, broadly 

 rounded in front ; eyes small ; mouth small ; teeth in 27 rows above, 26 

 below, small, each acuminate on inner edge; teeth bands narrow, 

 rounded at outer ends ; front nasal valves very short, confluent, reach- 

 ing teeth in median prominence, rounded on outer angles ; hind nasal 



