Malacoraja spinacidermis
Description
Malacoraja spinacidermis (Barnard, 1923)
Roughskin Skate
Raia spinacidermis Barnard, 1923: 440. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1935.7.19.7. Type locality: South Africa (exact locality unknown).
Local synonymy: Raia spinacidermis: Barnard, 1923: 440; Barnard, 1925: 73, fig. 6, pl. 4: Fowler, 1941: 392; Smith, 1949a: 66 (in part, South Africa, not Raia durbanensis, in synonymy); Smith, 1965: 66 (in part, South Africa).? Raia plutonia: Barnard, 1925: 68 (in part, also including holotype of Raia albalinea von Bonde & Swart, 1923 = R. caudaspinosa). Raja spinacidermis: Norman, 1935: 46; Hulley, 1970: 173, pl. 4; Hulley, 1972a: 86, figs. 58–59; Hulley & Stehmann, 1977: 227, figs. 1–5; Hulley, 1986: 125, fig. 25.19. Raja (Malacoraja) spinacidermis: Compagno et al., 1989, pl.; Compagno et al., 1991: 97; Ebert et al., 1991: 76. Malacoraja spinacidermis: Compagno, 1999: 116; Stehmann, 1995: 28; Compagno & Ebert, 2007: 137, fig. 5e; Ebert & Compagno, 2007: 120; Ebert et al., 2008: 91; NPOA, 2013: 55; da Silva et al., 2015: 247; Ebert, 2015: 181, fig. 205; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 147; Last et al., 2016f: 23; Last et al., 2016g: 296, fig. 19.87; McEachran & Séret, 2016: 1386; Séret, 2016: 1345; Weigmann, 2016: 950.
South Africa voucher material: Holotype: BMNH 1935.7.19.7. Non-type: SAIAB 27330.
South African distribution: The Orange River (NP) to Cape Point (WC).
Remarks: This species also occurs in the North Atlantic, but its distribution north of South Africa is patchy. Morphological and molecular comparison of specimens from South Africa and the North Atlantic may confirm if it is the same species or if they are different.
Conservation status: LC (2020).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH, SAIAB
- Family
- Rajidae
- Genus
- Malacoraja
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- BMNH 1935.7, SAIAB 27330
- Order
- Rajiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Barnard
- Species
- spinacidermis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Malacoraja spinacidermis (Barnard, 1923) sec. Ebert, Wintner & Kyne, 2021
References
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- Barnard, K. H. (1925) A monograph of the marine fishes of South Africa. Part I (Amphioxus, Cyclostomata, Elasmobranchii, and Teleostei-Isospondyli to Heterosomata). Annals of the South African Museum, 21, 1 - 418.
- Fowler, H. W. (1941) The fishes of the groups Elasmobranchii, Holocephali, Isospondyli, and Ostarophysi obtained by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries streamer " Albatross " in 1907 to 1910, chiefly in the Philippine Islands and adjacent seas. Bulletin United States National Museum, 100, 1 - 879.
- Smith, J. L. B. (1949 a) The Sea Fishes of Southern Africa. South Africa Central News Agency Ltd., 550 pp.
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- von Bonde, C. & Swart, D. B. (1923) The Platosomia (skates and rays) collected by the S. S. " Pickle ". University of South Africa, Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey Report, 3 (5), 1 - 22.
- Norman, J. R. (1935) Coast fishes, Part. I. The South Atlantic. ' Discovery' Reports, 12, 1 - 58.
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