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RAJA NAEVUS Miiller and Henle 



Raja naevus Mullee and Henle, Syst. Besclir. Plagiostomen, p. 138 (type lo- 

 cality: Atlantic coasts of Europe, Mediterranean Sea) ; p. 194, 18-11 (note). 



Raia naevus Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. 2k)ol., vol. 36, p. 321, 1913 (Atlantic and 

 Mediterranean coasts of Europe). — Barnard, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 

 21, pt. 1, p. 72, 1925 (west coast, off Cape Peninsula and Saldanha Bay, 100- 

 200 fathoms). 



Width little greater than space from snout end to ends of ventrals. 

 Snout somewhat obtuse, short, only slightly produced; rostral car- 

 tilages united about half their length; eye less than interorbital, 

 which little over 3 in preocular length ; teeth 54 with short points in 

 male ; internasal less than space from nostril to snout tip. 



Upper surface with small asperities on snout, front pectoral edge, 

 and sides of tail, more numerous and widely spread in young; 

 spines on supraorbital ridge, 1 or 2 on suprascapula, median row 

 from occiput to dorsal, flanked on hinder part of body and on tail 

 in larger individuals by another row, sometimes by 2 rows on tail; 

 lower surface smooth. 



Pectorals with front edges undulate, outer angles broadly rounded, 

 hind margin convex. 



Brown, uniform or chiefly in young with numerous round dark 

 spots, of which one near pectoral base usually more prominent and 

 larger than others, surrounded by light ring. Under surface light, 

 with usually some irregularly shaped, but more or less symmetrically 

 arranged, dark blotches on pectorals and ventrals. Length to 700 

 mm. (Barnard.) 



West coast of South Africa, Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts 

 of Europe. 



RAJA PHILIPI Lloyd 



Raia philipi Lloyd, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 18, p. 309, 1906 (type lo- 

 cality: Gulf of Aden, in 130 fathoms) ; Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 1, p. 5, 1907 

 (lat. 13°36'00" N., long. 47''32'00" E., in 130 fathoms, Arabian Sea) ; Illustr. 

 Zool. Investigator, Fishes, pt. 9, pis. 40, 41, fig. 1, 1908 ; Mem. Indian Mus., 

 vol. 2, p. 142, 1909 (type).— Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 

 353, 1913 (compiled). 



Head to spiracle 5i/^ in total; disk width ly^o in its length, tail 

 1% in disk. Snout li/4 in head to spiracle, slender, prominent; eye 

 6l^, 5 in snout, 2^/4 in interorbital; mouth width 2y8 in head to 

 spiracle, 1% in preoral length, which lYg in head to spiracle; mouth 

 widely angular; teeth in 80 rows above, 60 below, low, triangular, 

 on rhomboidal base; edges of nasal valves deeply fimbriated, united 

 across middle line by distinct fold of skin which separated from 

 upper jaw by deep curved groove, least width of internarial 2% in 

 head to spiracle; interorbital 2%, firm cartilaginous portion 41^. 

 Spiracle close behind eye, little oblique, subequal with eye. 



