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RAJA KUJIENSIS Tanaka 



Raja knjiensis Tanaka, Dobuts. Zasshi, Tokyo, vol. 28. p. 17:3, 1916 (type 

 locality: Kuji, in Hitachi, northeast of Tokyo).— Jordan and Hubbs, Mem. 

 Carnegie Mus., vol. 10, p. 109, 1925 (translation).— Fowle3j, Proc. 4th 

 (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 501, 1930 (compiled). 



Disk rhomboid, wider than long inchisive of ventrals. Snout 

 slightly pointed, tip forming angle of 140° length twice interor- 

 bital; teeth in 25 rows in jaws. Spiracle shorter than eye. 



Body with uniformly scattered small spines, very few in small 

 area behind spiracle, none on eye border only ; large spines in single 

 row from behind eye to second dorsal on midline of back; near 

 disk center pair of rather large spines either side of line of mid- 

 dorsal spines; lower surface of disk entirely smooth. 



Disk weakly crenulate in front edges, rounded at outer angle form- 

 ing angle about 100°, hind disk angles rounded in angle about 90°. 



Purplish brown, with few black spots, scattered irregularly and 

 unsymmetrically in relation to middorsal white. Below dead white, 

 with few dusky spots, margin dusky gray. Length, 825 mm. 

 (Tanaka.) 



Japan. 



RAJA NASUTA Miiller and Henle 



Raja nasuta (Banks) Muller and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 150, 

 1841 (type locality: Australia, Ocean near Totaranni, New Zealand). — 

 Gray, List fish British Museum, p. 112, 1851 (reference).— Dum^ril, Hist. 

 Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 572, 1865 ( copied ) .—Hector, Colonial Mus. Gov- 

 ernm. Surv. Rept. (Fishes New Zealand), p. 84, 1872.— Hutton, Trans. Proc. 

 New Zealand Inst., vol. 8, p. 216, 1876 (Oamaru).— Hector. Handb. New 

 Zealand, p. 16, 1879.— Waite, Rec. Canterbury Mus., vol. 1, No. 2, p. 18, pi. 19, 

 pi. 21, fig. 2. 1909 (Chatham Islands, New Zealand, 9-105 fathoms).- 

 Rendahl, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk naturh. Foren. Kjobenhavn, vol. 81, p. 1, 

 1925 (Napier).— Young, Trans. New Zealand Inst., vol. 60, p. 140, 1929 

 (Chatham Islands ) .—Fowler, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, 

 p. 500, 1930 (reference). 



Rata nasuta Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 866, 1913 (New Zealand 

 and Australia). 



Raya oxyrhynchus (not Linnaeus) Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Acclimat. Soc. Vic- 

 toria, vol. 1, p. 224, 1872 (Victoria). 



Raya rosirata (not Lacepede) Castelnau, Victoria Office Rec. Philadelphia 

 Exhib. (Intercol. Exhib. Essays No. 5), p. 17, 1873 (Melbourne) ; Proc. Zool. 

 Acclimat. Soc. Victoria, vol. 2, p. 57, 1873 (on above). 



Raja rostrata Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 5, pt. 2, p. 312, 

 1880 (Port Phillip) ; vol. 6, p. ^76, 18S1 (Port Phillip). 



Raia scabra Ogilby, Cat. Fishes Australian Mus., pt. 1, p. 17, 1888 [type locality : 

 Manly, New South Wales; Port Phillip, Victoria (on Raya rostrata 

 Castelnau)]. 



Raja scahra Lucas, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, new ser., vol. 2, p. 46, 1890 (refer- 

 ence).— McCulloch, Fishes of New South Wales, ed. 2, p. 11, 1927, 



