FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 453 



p. 39, 1909 (Puri).— Southwell, Ceylon Administr. Rep., 1912-13, pp. 

 E43-E45, E49.— Pearson, Ceylon Administr. Rep., 1915-18, pp. F11-F14. 

 Pteroplatea micrurus Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Japan), vol. 25, p. 



22, 1853 (Nagasaki, China, East Indies, Malacca, Bengal, Red Sea) ; Nat. 

 Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, vol. 21, p. 136, 1860 (Muutok, Banka). 



Dasyatis micriira Gray, List fish Bi'itish Museum, p. 122, 1851 (Calcutta, India, 



Singapore). 

 Dasyatis microura Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 29, p. 37, 1860 



(Calcutta). 

 Pastinaca kunsal CuviEai, Regno animal, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 400, 1829 (on Tenkee 



kunsal Russell). 

 Pteroplatea annul at a Swainson, Nat. Hist. Animals, vol. 2, p. 319, 1839 (on 



Tenkee kunsal Russell), 

 Raia pastinaca var. altavela (not Linnaeus) Lichtenstein, Descr. Anim. 



Forster, p. 256, 1844 (Tanna, Society Islands). 



Head greatly depressed; snout about IYq in interorbital ; eye 5%; 

 mouth width ll^; teeth in about 40 rows in each jaw; internasal 

 space 11/3 in width; interorbital flat, with broad median depression, 

 greater than interspiracle width. Spiracle larger than eye, with- 

 out tentacle. 



Skin smooth. 



No dorsal; tail without dorsal folds, without caudal spine; disk 

 length l%o in width. 



Brown above. Iris gray. Tail whitish, with 9 broad blackish 

 bands much wider than pale interspaces. 



Red Sea, India, Ceylon, Pinang, Singapore, East Indies, Siam, 

 China, Japan, Polynesia. 



1 example. A.N.S.P. Bombay, India. Dr. F. Hallberg. Disk length, 153 mm., 

 tail, 90 mm., disk width, 285 mm. 



GYMNURA JAPONICA (Schlegel) 



Pteroplatea japonica Schlegel, in Siebold's Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pt. 15, 

 p. 309, pi. 141, 1850 (type locality: Nagasaki Bay). — Bleeker, Act. Soc. 

 Sci. Indo-Neerl. (Japan), vol. 2, p. 45, 1857. — Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., 

 vol. 1, p. 614, 1865 (copied). — Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 



23, p. 338, 1900 (Tokyo) ; Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 42, 1901 (refer- 

 ence).— Jordan and FowLEE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 26, p. 662, 1903 

 (Wakanoura).— Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, p. 401, 1912 (Tokyo). 

 — Gaeman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 413, 1913 (Japan).— Izuka 

 and Matsxjura, Cat. Zool. Spec. Tokyo Mus. Vertebrata, p. 187, 1920 

 (Boshiu). — Chabanaud, Service Oceanogr. Peches Indochine, 1* note, p. 6, 

 1926 (Cambodia).— Mori, Journ. Pan Pacific Res. Inst., vol. 3, p. 3, 1928 

 (Fusan, Korea). — Fowler, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 506, 

 1930 (Japan.)— Schmidt, Trans. Pacific Comm. Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., vol. 11, 

 p. 15, 1931 (Nagasaki). — Fang and Wang, Contr. Biol. L'ab. Sci. Soc. China, 

 vol. 8, p. 274, fig. 26, 1932 ( Chef oo).— Lin, Sci. Rep. Nat. Tsing Hua 

 Univ., ser. B, vol. 1, p. 170, figs. 14-14a, 1932 (Tsingtao). — Wang, 

 Contrib. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, vol. 9, No. 3, p. 112, 1933 (Chekiang).-- 

 Tanaka, Jap. Fish. Life Colours, No. 34, 1933. 



