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Raja meerdcrvoort'ii (not Bleeker) Jordan and Snyder. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mn.s., 



vol. 23, p. 337, 1900 (Tokyo). — Pavlenko, Minutes Kazan Soc. Naturalists, 



vol. 42, p. 11, 1910 (Petri Magni Bay). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Philadelphia, 1910, p 471 (Hakodate). — Jordan, Tanaka, Snydex, Journ. 



Coll. Sci. Tokyo, vol. 33, p. 26, fig. 1913 (Japan).— Mori, Journ. Pan Pacific 



Res. Inst., vol. 3, No. 3, p. 3, 1928 (Fusan, Korea), 

 Raja meerdervoorti Jordan and Fowler, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 26, p. 650, 



fig. 7, 1903 (Tokyo, Nagasaki, Kobe, Wakanoura, Hakodate). — Jordan and 



Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat Mus., vol. 31, p. 515, 1906 (Port Arthur, 



Manchuria ) . 

 Raja meerdevoorti Smith and Pope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, p. 460, 1906 



( Kochi ; Kagoshima ) . 

 Raia meerdervoorti i Engelhardt, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., vol. 4, pt. 3, p. 102, 



1913 (Munich Museum). 



Head to spiracle 8% in total length ; disk length I14 in its width, 

 1% in tail. Snout 1% in head to spiracle, would form wide obtuse 

 angle, with short point at tip; eye 3i/^, 2% in snout, 1% in inter- 

 orbital; mouth slightly waved, width 1%^ in space between mouth 

 corner and snout tip; teeth in 31 rows, subequal, bluntly pointed; 

 oronasal groove present, anterior nasal valve tubular, posterior valve 

 large, without or with weak fringes, internarial II/3 in distance to 

 snout tip, subequal in length to mouth width; interorbital l%o i^ 

 head to spiracle. 



Body and tail above entirely covered with small asperities, each 

 with stellate base and spine at center; no large spines on supra- 

 orbital; on back near front part of vertebral column 2 large spines 

 each side, pair nearer median line larger; row of large vertebral 

 spines from middle of back to dorsals of which 12 to 14 before vent 

 and 25 to 29 posterior; 1 or 2 interdorsal spines; under surface 

 smooth. 



Dorsals small, first little larger or 2% in head to spiracle, inter- 

 dorsal % base of first; caudal low small fold; pectorals form rhom- 

 boid disk, front edge undulate, outer and hind angles broadly convex. 



Uniform purplish brown, narrowly edged darker in hinder and 

 inner margins- Hind ventral edge narrowly edged darker. Under 

 surface whitish, hind edges of disk and ventrals broadly edged with 

 dark dusky. Length, 282 mm. (Tanaka.) 



Japan, Korea, Manchuria. Included by Taranetz as a synonym 

 of Raja kenojei. 



2 examples. A.N.S.P. Hakodate, Japan. Stanford University. Snout 1^4 in 

 head; interorbital 3% to 4; mouth width 2% to 2%; internasal 2% to 

 2%; preoral length l%o to 1%; first dorsal length 3 to 4; front ventral 

 edge 1% ; upper teeth 38 to 40, lower 37 or 38. Single median thorn on 

 back. Preocular spines 2, postocular 1. Dusky pores or ducts of loren- 

 zini below. Row of spines down tail above. Spine between dorsals. Lat- 

 eral folds of tail well developed. No caudal fold. One with copepod 

 parasite on upper surface of ventral. Both males. 



