Di;i;P-SKA RAY. 



nil 



sizi', piirtly lifCiuise it is less foiniiioii. It is frc- 

 (|iiently' taken, however, on Haddock-lines and in I'loun- 

 fler-nets, occasionally too in seines drawn for Herrings 



(Fkies, Smitt.) 



to' I 



■f 







o*^ 





Fig. 318. Uaja lii/perl/orea, c^, - j nat. size. After GOnther. 



THE DEEP-SEA RAY. 

 RAJA HYPERBOEEA. 



Figs. .St 7 and 318. 



Leiif/th (if the snout {arcordhifi to Guntiier's figures) about 13 — 14 % {according to Collett 17 %) of that of 

 the bodif, or 17 — 18 % {according to Collett 22 %) of the breadth of the disk. Distance between each nostril 

 and the tip of the snout about 14 — 1(> % of the said breadth. Dorsal fins set close together, with {in the young) 

 or u-ifh'iiit (in the old) interjacent aruleus. Aculei groored, their number in the median line of the hack and 



tail at least about 24". 



Si/n. Raja htjperborea. Coll., Foih. Vid. Selsk. Clirnia 1878, No. 14, 

 p. 7; Norsk. Nordh. E.xped., Zool., Fislj., p. 9, tab. I, 

 figg. 1 et 2; Gthr, Deep Sea Fish., ChaUeng. Exped., Zool., 

 vol. XXII, p. 8, tab. IV; Lillj., Si\, Norg. Fish., vol. Ill, 

 p. 604. 



As may be inferred from the diagnosis, as well as 

 from the figures given above, it is as jet uncertain 

 whether this Ray should be regarded as a distinct s|ie- 

 cies or merely as a variety (jierhaps two different va- 



" One of GCnther's young specimens, liowever, liad only 16. 

 .Si-nn,;i;mi-inii Fishes. 



