FISHES. CARTILAGINKI. 36. Raja. Ill 



134. R. Oxyrinchus. Cinereous, viith pale and dusky va- 

 riations : snout elongated, pointed : back and tail 

 with a single row of spinous tubercles. 



Sharp-nofed Ray. Shaw Zoo/, v. p. 276. tab. 138. 



Body 6 or 7 feet long, white beneath, with 3 fpines round each 

 eye, and many foft ones over the whole body : back with 10 fpincs. 

 and often 2 larger-ones : fins and tail bJackish red: ventral and 

 anal short, fomewhat falcate : tail clavate, fringed with a fmali 

 membranous fins, with 2 fins near the end, and in the male often 

 armed with a row of" fniall fpines each side. 



135. R. Fullonica. Grey spotted with black : back cover- 

 ed with spines : eves with a single row, and tail with 

 a double row of spines. 



Fuller's Ray. Dr. Zool. iii. p. 86. n. 33. Shaw v. p. 275. 



Body growing to a large size : fnout pointed, the nictitant mem- 

 brane fringed : teeth fuiall, sharp : pectoral-fins with 3 rows of 

 crooked fpines above : tail slender, longer than the body with a 

 double (triple, Perm.] row of fpines. I> probably a. variety of 

 the next./ 



136. R. Rubiis. Yellowish, with dusky spots : snout 

 short, pointed : back with a single row, and tail with 

 a triple row of spines. 



Rough Ray. Donovan's Brit. Fishes, tab. 20. 



Body growing large, with feveral other fpines about the eyes and 

 on the back, besides the row of larger-ones : eyes placed far back, 

 pupil bluish, iris black : mouth wide, with numerous wedge-shaped 

 teeth : ventral and anal-fins short, the former 3-rayed, the latter 6, 

 and near thefe in the male are 2 long fin-like appendages : tail slen- 

 der, nearly as long as the body with 2 fins, the last terminal. 



137. It. chagrinea. Above grey-brown and tubercled i 

 snout and tail with a triple row of spines. 



Shagreen Ray. Br. Zool. iii. p. 87. Shaw Zool. v. p. 281. 



Body growing large, covered with minute shagreen-like tubercles* 

 snout long, sharp : pupil faphyrine, with a femicircular row of fpinrs 

 at the corner: tail with 2 rows of slender f mall fpines reaching a 

 little up the back. 



138. It. Miraletus. Grey-brown, spotted, with a large 

 ocellate spot each side: eyes with a single row, and 

 tail with a triple row of spines. 



Mirrour Ray. Donov. Brit. Fishes t. 103. Shaw v. t. 139. 



Body about the size of the Thornback, grey-brown and rough 

 above, with brown and bine fpots : snout taper, pointed : pectoral-fins 

 each marked with a large ocellate fpot lurrounded with a dark* 

 brown ring, the iris of which is whitish or pale blue, the pupil 

 dark-brown : eyes with a single row of fpines on the inside ; tail 

 with two rounded-oblong lins at the end. 



C. Body rhombic, with blunt teeth. 



139. R. clavata. Yellowish-grey, spotted : snout rather 

 pointed : body covered with clavate prickles, besides 

 a single row of claw-like* ones down the back and 

 tail. 



Thornback. Br. Zool. t. n. 12. Donovan t. 26. Shaw v. t. 139. 



Body growing to 12 feet long, brownish with white fpots. or 

 whitish with dusky i'pots, tubercled, clothtd with fpines above and 

 underneath, which when they fall off leave a white fpot: belly 

 crossed with a strong fcimiunar cartilage: head rather long', 

 pointed : tetth final], round : iris femilunar, brown : tail longer 

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