FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 299 

 RHINA ANCYLOSTOMA Schneider 



Rhina ancylostomus Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 352, pi. 72, 1801 (type 

 locality : Coromandel ; Indian Sea ) . — Cuvieb, Regue animal, vol. 2, p. 133, 

 1817 (copied).— Gray, lUustr. Indian Zool. Hardwicke, vol. 2, pi. 102, fig. 2, 

 1832-34 (India). — ^Agassiz, Poissons fossiles, vol. 3, p. 82, pi. 4, figs. 3^, 

 183o.^MiJLLEB and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 110, 1841 (locality 

 unknown). — Richardson, Fishes China Japan, p. 195, 1846 (Seas of 

 China ) .—Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, pt. 2, p. 1391, 1849 

 (Pinang). — Jerdon, Madras Journ. Lit. Sci., vol. 17, p. 148, 1851. — Gray, 

 List fish British Mus., p. 92, 1851 (Madras, China, Pinang). 



Rhina ancliylostoma Van Hasselt, Algemein Konst. Letterbode, p. — , 1823 

 (Java).; Bull. Sci. Nat. F6russac, vol. 2, p. 90, 1824 (Java). 



Rhina avcylostoma Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Plagiost.), vol. 24, pp. 51, 

 56, 1852 (Batavia) ; (Bengal), vol. 25, p. 16, 1853 (reference).— Tortonese, 

 Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Torino, ser. 3, vol. 45, p. 11, 1935-36 (Baia de 

 Assab, Mar Rosso).— Fowler, List Fish. Malaya, p. 13 (246), 1938 

 (reference). 



Rhamphobatis ancylostomus Dum£bil, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 482, 

 1865 (compiled). — ^Annandale, Mem. Indian Mus., vol. 2, p. 10, pi. 5, fig. 5, 

 1909 (Off Orissa and Hughli River mouth). — Gakman, Mem. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., vol. 36, p. 267, 1913 (Africa, China, East Indies).— Fowler, Proc. 

 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 498, 1930 (reference) ; Hong Kong 

 Nat., vol. 1, p. 132, fig. 15, 1930 (compiled). — Che\'ey, Inst. Oceanogr. Indo- 

 chine, 19* note, p. 7, 1932 (Cochinchina). — Tortonese, Boll. Mus. Zool. 

 Anat. Comp. Torino, ser. 3, vol. 43, p. 233, 1933 (Baia de Assab). 



Rhamphohatis ancylostoma Jordan and Fowler, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 26, 

 p. 643, 1903 (Kinkwazan). — Ogh-by, Ann. Queensland Mus., no. 9, p. 6, 

 1908 (Moreton Bay) ; Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 5, p. 84, 1916 (Moreton 

 Bay and Dunk Island). — McCulloch and Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., 

 vol. 8, pt. 2, p. 129, 1925 (reference). — Norman, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 p. 943, test fig. A (nostril), 1926 (East Africa, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, 

 Indian Archipelago, Australia, Japan). 



Rhyncho'batus ancylostomus Gunthee, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 440, 

 1870 (Madras, China, Seychelles, Pinang). — Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, 

 p. 730, pi. 193, fig. 3, 1878 (Madras) ; Fauna British India, Fishes, vol. 1, 

 p. 41, 18S9. — EouLENGER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 136, 1892 (Muscat). — 

 Kent, Great Barrier Reef, p. 305, 1893 (Queensland). — Elera, Cat. 

 Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 169, 1893 (Luzon, Cavite, Santa Cruz).— 

 Bartlett, Sarawak Gazette, vol. 26, No. 366, p. 134, 1896 (lower Sarawak 

 River). — Zugmayer, Abb. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., math.-phys. Kl., vol. 26, 

 p. 8, 1913 (Oman).— Pearson, Ceylon Administr. Rep. 1914, p. E4. — Tieant, 

 Service Oceanogr. Peches Indo-Chine, 6° note, p. 72, 1929 (Cochinchina). — 

 Pillay, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 33, p. 351, 1929 (Travancore). 

 RhynchoMtus anchylostomus Pbiarson, Ceylon Administr. Rep., 1915-18, pp. F9, 



F14, F18. 

 Rhina cyclostomus Swainson, Nat. Hist. Animals, vol. 2, p. 322, 1839 (on 

 Schneider). 



Head measured to spiracle 44^ to subcaudal origin, disk length 

 11/3 its width. Snout ly^ in head to spiracle, broadly convex in 

 front, rostral cartilages short; eye 6I/2, 5 in snout, 3% in interor- 

 bital; dentary width 1%? equals preoral length; teeth in 77 to 75 



