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DASYATIS NAVARRAE (Steindachner) 



Trygon navarrae Steindachner, Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 29, p. 132, 1892 

 (type locality: Shanghai); Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-nat. Kl., 

 vol. 59, p. 381, pi. 5, 1892 (type). 



Dasijbatus navarrae Garman, Mem. Mas. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 393, 1913 

 (Shanghai). — Lin, Sci. Rep. Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., ser. B, vol. 1, No. 5, p. 

 167, figs. 13-13a, pi. 5, fig. 8 (teeth), 1932 (Tsigtao). 



Dasyatis navarrae Fowler, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 505, 

 1930 (reference) ; Hong Kong Nat., vol. 1, p. 180, 1930 (compiled). 



Dasyatis hennetti (not Miiller and Henle) Jordan and Richardson, Mem. Car- 

 negie Mus., vol. 4, p. 164, pi. 65, 1909 (Takao). 



Head to hind spiracle edge 9% in total length. Snout ly^ in 

 head to hind spiracle edge; eye 6%, 5 in snout, 3% in interorbital ; 

 mouth width 2i/^ in interspace between first pair of gill openings; 

 margin of nasal flap with short fringe; interorbital 2 in head to 

 hind spiracle edge. Spiracles little larger and close behind eye, 

 interspace 1% in head. 



Median vertebral row of short strong spines begin behind branchial 

 region and extend to caudal spine; tail largely and over terminal 

 portion above roughened by minute spine-like tubercles. 



Tail long, whiplike, with serrated spine 2 in head to hind spiracle 

 edge; behind reflexed spine very short low fold on top of tail ex- 

 tends back for space equal to interorbital ; below and beginning under 

 spine low black cutaneous fold extends back 3 times interorbital; 

 pectorals form rhomboid disk, long as wide or 21/4 in tail, front edges 

 nearly straight, outer angles rather evenly convex and hind edges 

 slightly convex; ventrals obtuse, width I14 in interorbital. 



Uniform blackish above, pale below. Tail without bands. Length, 

 1,145 mm. (Jordan and Richardson.) 



China, Formosa. The type, a mature male with the disk 330 mm. 

 long, had a band of minute denticles longitudinally over each eye, 

 along the vertebral column and grouped about the center of the disk. 



DASYATIS KUHLII (Muller and Henle) 



Trygon kuhlii MiJLLER and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 164, pi. 50, 

 1841 (type locality: Vanicoro, New Guinea, India). — Schlegel, in Siebold's 

 Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pt. 15, p. 308, 1850 (Japan). — Gray, List fish 

 British Museum, p. 120, 1851 (reference). — Bleekeb, Verh. Batav. 

 Genootsch. (Plagiost.), vol. 24, p. 73, 1852 (Batavia; Samai'ang) ; (Japan), 

 vol. 25, p. 22, 1853 (Japan, East Indies, New Guinea, Vanicolo, West India) ; 

 (Bengal), vol. 25, p. 82, 1853 (reference) ; Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, 

 vol. 7, p. 228, 1854 (Macassar) ; vol. 10, p. 348, 1856 (Rio, Bintang) ; Act. 

 Soc. Sci. Ind. Neerl., vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 8, 10, 1856 (Macassar) ; vol. 2, No. 7, 

 p. 9, 1857 (Amboina) ; Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland Indie, vol. 20, p. 141, 1859-60 

 (Badjoa, Boni). — Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, p. 420, 1865 ("Auckland"). — 

 GttNTHER, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 479, 1870 (Zanzibar; East 

 Indies). — Hettor, Colonial Mus. Governm. Surv. Dept. (Fishes New Zea- 

 land), p. 85, 1872 (Kner's Auckland record). — Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss, 



