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cles; mouth nearly straight, width 3% to 3% in preoral length; 

 nostrils moderately long, oblique, 1% to ll^ in mouth width, about 

 1^2 in internarial, front valve extends inward nearly far as level of 

 inner nostril edge. Outer fold of spiracle well developed, inner 

 small, interspiracular space little over 3 in snout. 



Skin covered with minute denticles smooth to touch; series of 

 rudimentary tubercles in median line of back, around orbits and 

 above spiracles, scarcely evident without lens. 



First dorsal nearly twice high as long, origin space behind ventral 

 base equal to or greater than interdorsal, base 3 to 3% in interdorsal. 



Coloration not given. Length, 630 mm. (Norman.) 



Formosa. Type in the British Museum. 



RHINOBATOS SCHLEGELII Muller and Henle 



Rhinobatus (Rhmoiatus) schlegelii Muixeb and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagios- 

 tomen, p. 123, pi. 42, 1841 (type locality: Nagasaki). — Bleekek, Act. Soc. 

 Sci. Indo-N^eii., (Japan), vol. 3, p. 41, No. 3, 1858 (Japan).— Dumeril, Hist. 

 Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 497, 1865 (compiled). 



Rhinobatus schlegelii Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, p. 195, 1846 (Sea of 

 Japan). — Gray, List fish British Museum, p. 97, 1851 (Japan). — Bleeker, 

 Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Japan), vol. 25, p. 22, 1853 (Nagasaki).— 

 GiJNTHER, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 445, 1870 (Japan; not For- 

 mosan specimen). — Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, vol. 1, p. 409, 1876 

 (Yokohama, Nagasaki). — Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., p. 510, 

 1891 (reference).— Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 619, 1895 (Luzon, 

 Manila, Navotas). — Steindachner, Ann. Hofmus. Wien, vol. 11, p. 225, 

 1896 (Kobe, Hiogo, Nagasaki). — Ishikawa and Matstkira, Prelim. Cat. 

 Fishes Mus. Tokyo, p. 60, 1897. — Pietschmann, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 

 math.-nat. KL, vol. 117, pt. 1, p. 651, 1908 (Japan).— Zugmayer, Abb. Bayer. 

 Akad. Wiss., matb.-pbys. Kl., vol. 26, p. 8, 1913 (Oman). — Gasman, Mem. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 276, 1913 (Japan).— Izuka and Matsuuka, Cat. 

 Zool. Spec. Tokyo Mus. Vertebrata, p. 188, 1920 (Bosbiu). — Norman, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, p. 9-59, fig. 12 (rostra), 1926 (.Japan).— Schmidt, Trans. 

 Pacific Comm. Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., vol. 11, p. 10, 1931 (Nagasaki). 



Rhinobatus schlegeli Sohlegel, in Siebold's Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pt. 15, p. 

 307, 1850 (Nagasaki Bay).— Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 23, p. 337, 1900 (Tokyo) ; Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 41, 1901 (refer- 

 ence). — Jordan and Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, p. 318, 1902 

 (Formosa). — Schmidt and Lindberg, Bull. Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., 1930, p. 

 1187 (Tsuruga).- Tanaka, Jap. Fish. Life Colours, No. 29, 1933. 



Rhinobatus schlegel Jordan and Fowler, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 26, p. 645, 

 1903 (Tokyo, Wakanoura, Onomichi, Hakata, Nagasaki). 



Rhinobatos schlegeli Mori, Journ. Pan Pacific Res. Inst., vol. 3, p. 3, 1928 (Fusan 

 and Mokpo, Korea). — Fang and Wang, Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, 

 vol. 8, p. 259, fig. 19, 1932 (Tsingtau). 



Rhinobatos schlegelii Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 590, 

 1930 (Nagasaki) ; Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 498, 1930 

 (Japan). 



