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RAJA OCULATA Risso 



Raia oculata Risso, Hist. Nat. Europe m^rid., Poissous, vol. 3, p. 149, 1826 



(type locality: Nice). — Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 319, 



1913 (off southern England and France). — VonBonde and Swart, Marine 



Biol. Surv. South Africa Rep., pt. 3, 1922, p. 4, 1924 (compiled). 

 Raja maculata (not Shaw 1803) Montagu, Mem. Werner Soc, vol. 2, p. 426, 



1811-1816 (type locality: "South coast of Devonshire" ) .—Bonaparte, Cat. 



Metod. Pesci Europei, p. 13, 1846 (Atlantic, Mediterranean). 

 Raia maculata Barnard, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 21, pt. 1, p. 71, 1925 



(compiled). 

 Raia brachyura LaFont, Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, vol. 28, p. 503, pi. 25, 1871 



(type locality: "Des cotes de la Gironde"). 

 Raja brachyura Fowlee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1910, p. 471 



(Mediterranean). 

 Raia hlanda Holt and Calderwood, Trans. Roy. Dublin Soc, new ser., vol. 5, 



p. 395, 1895 (type locality: West coast of Ireland). 

 Raja nmniagni Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1910, p. 468 (on 



Raia maculata Montagu). — Norman, Discovery Rep., vol. 12, p. 46, 1935 



(note). 



Depth 101/2 to end of tail ; head to first gill opening 5. Snout li/o 

 in head, tip slightly protruded and rounded; eye 8%, 6I/3 in snout, 

 4 in interorbital ; mouth width about 2 in head, apparently little 

 curved; teeth in 88 rows above, about 86 below^, each tooth with 

 rather strong point; internasal 3% in head; interorbital 21/5, firm 

 cartilaginous interorbital 4, deeply concave. Second and third gill 

 openings longest, subequal with eye. 



Upper surfaces all finely asperous; 4 small spines before each 

 eye; median, vertebral series of dorsal spines, from close behind 

 spiracles, most developed on tail ; incomplete lateral row of few spines 

 on each side of tail irregularly, of 10 spines on left side and 7 on 

 right side; space above each ventral laterally on disk smooth; also 

 front lobe of ventral; lower surface of disk largely smooth, broad 

 medial area with scattered asperities, also under surface of tail more 

 or less roughened. 



First dorsal fin little shorter than second or 214 in snout; no 

 caudal; tail li/^ in disk length; pectorals form rhomboid disk, 

 slightly shorter than wide, with front edges undulate and hind 

 edges slightly convex; front ventral lobe 1% in snout. 



Above dull brown, with numerous close-set, rounded, darker brown 

 spots, all smaller than interspaces. Below uniformly pale. 



South Africa. Also in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. 



A.N.S.P. No. 17366. Mediterranean. C. L. Bonaparte. No. 76. Dr. T. B. Wilson. 

 Length, 1,095 mm. Dried skin. 



RAJA QUADRIMACULATA Risso 



Raia quadrimaculata Risso, Hist. Nat. Europe m^rid., Poissons, vol. 3, p. 150. 

 1826 (type locality: Nice). — Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 

 323, 1913 (coasts of Europe and Madeira). — VonBondb and Swart, Marine 



