Waite — Fishes of South Australia 



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Remarkable for its almost cireular shape and smooth skin. It is known only 

 from a single specimen, taken off (ireenly Island, Sonth Anstralia. 



Family DASYATIDAE. 



DASYATIS Rafinesque, ISIO (pastinacus). 

 DASYATIS BREVICAUDATUS Hutton (Stingray). 



Trygon hrevicaudata Hntt., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), xvi, 1875, p. 317. 

 Dasyhatus hrevicaudatus Waite, Ree. Cant. Mns., i, 1909, p. 151, pi. xxii. 

 Dasyatis hrevicamlaius MeCull.. Endeavonr Res., iii., 1915, p. 102, pi. xv, fig. 1 

 and xvii, fig. 1. 



Fi"'. 44. Dasyatis hrevicaudatus. 



This species was described from a mutilated example, hence the imfortnnate 

 name (hrevicaudatus). The large dark object seen gliding along the bottom in 

 the deeper water oft' Kangaroo Island is doubtless this Stingray. 



