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Torpedo galvani Risso, Ichth. Nice, p. 21, pi. Ill, fig. 5, 1810 (type locality: 

 Nice) (on Roudelet). — Bonaparte, Icon. Fauna Ital., Pesci, vol. 3, pt. 2, fasc. 

 3-5, 1833 (Italy) ; Cat. Metod. Pesci Europei, p. 14, 1846 (Mediterranean 

 and Atlantic). 



f Torpedo ocellata Quoy and Gaimaed, Voy. Uranie, Zool., p. 199, 1824 (type 

 locality: Table Bay at Cape of Good Hope). 



Torpedo panthera Olfebs, Torpedo, p. 15, 1831 ("Mus. Berol." ; diagnosis). 



Torpedo mamorata var. panthera Olfebs, Torpedo, p. 16, 1831 (type locality: 

 Red Sea). 



Torpedo panthera (Ehrenberg) Ruppell, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, p. 68, pi. 19, 

 fig. 1, 1835 (Tor, Red Sea). — MinxER and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiost- 

 omen, p. 193, 1841 (Red Sea).— Dum£kil, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 510, 

 18G5 (compiled). — GtJNTHEE, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 451, 1870 

 (copied). — Klunzinqeb, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, p. 678, 1871 

 (Koseir, Red Sea). — Bambeb, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 31, Zool., p. 38, 

 1915 (Sudanese Red Sea).^ — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1925, p. 193 (Tegula River mouth in 60 fathoms) ; vol. 87, p. 364, 1935 

 (Durban). 



Narcacion panthera Gabman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 307, 1913 

 (Red Sea). 



Torpedo diverslcolor Davy, Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. Loudon, vol. 2, p. 542, pis. 

 22-24 (anatomy), 1834 (type locality: Malta). 



Torpedo vulgaris Fleming, British animals, p. 169, 1842 (type locality: Irish 

 coast; English coast). 



Torpedo plcta Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1843, p. 93 (type locality: Madeira). 



Torpedo trepidans Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Canaries, vol. 2, pt. 2, p. 101, 

 1835-1850 (type locality: Canaries). 



Torpedo hebetans Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Canaries, vol. 2, pt. 2, pi. 23, fig. 2, 

 1835-1850. 



Torpedo fuscomaculata Peters, Arch. Naturg., p. 278, 1855 (type locality: 

 Mozambique, Anyoxe, Ibo). — Dum^bil, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 510, 

 1865 (copied). — Guntheb, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., vol. 8, p. 451, 1870 (Zanzi- 

 bar). — Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 447, 1876 (Mauritius; 

 Seychelles). — Saxjvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., p. 510, 1891. 



Narcacion fuscomaculata Gabman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 308, 1913 

 (Mauritius). 



Narcobatus polleni Bleekeb, Nederlaud. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 3, p. 171, 1866 

 (type locality: Reunion); Faune Madagascar, 1874, p. 1, pi. 1.— Sauvage, 

 Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., p. 510, 1891. 



Torpedo suessii Steindachnee, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., 

 vol. 107, pt. 1, p. 784, pi. 2, 1898 (type locality: Perim ; Mocca, Red Sea). 



Narcacion suessi Gabman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 308, 1913 (copied). 



Torpedo zugmayeri Englehardt, Zool. Anz., vol. 39, p. 647, 1912 (type locality: 

 Gwadar, Beluchistan). — Zitgmaykr, Ahh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., math.-phys. 

 Kl., vol. 26, p. 8 (Mekran), p. 17, 1913 (copies Englehardt). 



Snout short, greater than interorbital, nearly horizontal or straight 

 across front profile as seen from above; eye less than spiracle, 2 in 

 level interorbital; mouth small, width slightly over half preoral 

 length, longitudinal fold each side; teeth in 18 rows, small, bases 

 wide; internasal equals mouth width. Spiracle eye diameter behind 

 eye, with 8 or 9 fleshy marginal tentacles behind. 



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