

MYLIOBATIDJE. 



Peroom tirik, or Tappor kouti tiriki, Tamil ; Tappu cooti and Tenkee 

 kunsul, Tel. ; Lek kyouk temenynce, Burmese. 



Disk about twice as wide as long ; tail as long as disk in young, 

 but shorter in adults. No tentacle to spiracle. Teeth with a 

 single pointed cusp. Fins one or two small spines on caudal fin. 

 Skin smooth. Colour reddish brown ; tail annulated with white 

 and brown ; superiorly, in the centre of each light ring, there is 

 generally a brown spot. The young are covered all over with 

 small brown spots. A figure exists amongst Sir Walter Elliot's 

 drawings of Madras fish of an example covered with light rouud 



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Fig. '23. Pteroplatea micmra. 



Nab. Seas of India to the Malay Archipelago, and beyond. 

 Jerdon obtained one in which the disk was 6 feet across and 

 3 feet long. 



Family VI. MYLIOBATID^E. 



Pectoral fins large, developed along the sides of the body, occa- 

 sioning the latter to appear very broad ; these fins are not present 

 on the sides of the head, but reappear at the end of the snout as 

 a pair of detached fins. 



These fish, many of which attain to a large size, are variously 

 known as " Devil-fishes," "Sea-devils," "Bat-fishes," "Eagle- 

 rays," &c. 



