INDIAN FISHES. 
AMPHIBIA NANTES. 
RAJA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Spiracula v. subtus ad collum . Corpus de¬ 
pression ; os sub capite. 
Five spiracles on each side, on the under 
part of the neck; the body flat; the 
mouth underneath. 
No. I. 
Raja ocellata , corpore glabro; ocidis minimis, foraminibuspone oculos lunatis; dorso dipterygio; 
cauda brevi pinnata. 
The ocellated Ray, with a smooth body; very small eyes, the apertures behind them 
lunated ; two fins on the back ; a short pinnated tail. 
Called by the Natives Temeree. 
The form of this fish is that of a flattened orb; to which the expanded pectoral, or lateral fins, form a broad 
appendage. The flat head is hardly to be distinguished from the body. The small oval eyes, with the lunated 
aperture behind them, are about two inches and a half behind the edge of the rounded rostrum. Beneath, or on 
the other side, (as in all this genus,) are placed the mouth and nostrils; the former, about two inches from the 
rostrum, transverse, and furnished with numerous granular teeth; the latter large, open, and advanced half an 
inch before the mouth. On each side, behind the mouth, are five branchial spiracula. 
The sides extending circularly, form the pectoral, or lateral fins. The ventral fins on each side of the anus, 
with the broad tail, which is at its rise, give the appearance of an apron-like appendage to the body. The two 
fins on the ridge of the tail, (or dorsal fins,) are oblong, and obtuse. The tail, from the first dorsal fin, is short, 
broad, compressed, but diminishes and grows rounder, as it approaches to the caudal fin, which is broad, 
oblique, blunt, and on the lower edge slightly fringed. 
The colour of the upper part, a dusky brown, spotted with equal, round, or oval, black spots; the under part 
of the body white. 
The length, from the rostrum to the beginning of the tail, ten inches; the tail, to the tip of the fin, 
nine inches. 
