Waite — Fishes of South Australia 



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Order B A T O I D E I (Rays). 



Family RHINOBATIDAE. 



RHINOBATUS Bloch & Schneider, ISO! (rhinobatus). 



RHINOBATUS PHILIPPI Midler & Henle (Shovel-nosed Ray). 



Rhinobatus phiUppi Midi. & Henle, Plagiost., 1838, p. Hi), pi. xxxix ; Garm., 



Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool, xxxvi, 1913, p. 278. 

 Rhmohatns hanhsii Midi. & Henle, Plagiost., 1838, p. 123, 192; Waite, Mem. 



Aust. Mus., iv, 1899, p. 38, pi. iii. 

 Rkhiohates viyicentianus Haaeke, Zool. Anz., viii, 1885, p. 508. 

 Rhinohatus hougainvillei Ogil., P.L.S., N.S.AV., x, 1886, p. 464. 



Fig. 38. Illiiiiiibdtu.'i pliiUp/ii. 



Unlike the skates, the rays of this Family hatch the eggs within th(^ l)ody; 

 the yoniig iwo thus born alive and active. 



TRIGONORRHINA Midler & Henle, 1838 (fasciata). 

 TRIGONORRHINA FASCIATA Miiller & Henle (Fiddler). 



Fit)-. ?>9. 'rri(/<iii()iiiniia fasciata. 



