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Cruriraja durbanensis

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Cruriraja durbanensis (von Bonde & Swart, 1923)

Smoothnose Legskate

Raia durbanensis von Bonde & Swart, 1923: 11, fig. 1, pl. 22. Syntypes: (2) whereabouts unknown. Type locality: Hondeklip Bay, southwestern South Africa, southeastern Atlantic.

Local synonymy: Raia durbanensis: von Bonde & Swart, 1923: 11, fig. 1, pl. 22; Barnard, 1925: 69. Cruriraja durbanensis: Bigelow & Schroeder, 1948a: 550; Bigelow & Schroeder, 1953: 315; Bigelow & Schroeder, 1962: 199; Smith, 1964: 287; Wallace, 1967a: 7; Hulley, 1970: 156, fig. 3; Hulley, 1986: 116, fig. 25.2; Compagno et al., 1989: 84, pl. Compagno et al., 1991: 91; Ebert et al., 1991: 79; Stehmann, 1995: 103; Compagno, 1999: 117; Compagno & Ebert, 2007: 141, fig. 8a; Ebert & Compagno, 2007: 122; Aschliman et al., 2010: 370; Ebert, 2015: 174, fig. 191; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 147; Weigmann, 2016: 963; Weigmann et al., 2016a: 478, fig. 21.4. Raia spinacidermis: Smith, 1949a: 66 (in part Raia durbanensis in synonymy); Smith, 1965: 66 (in part).)

South Africa voucher material: Syntypes, 2 specimens both lost. No other known specimens available.

South African distribution: Endemic. Hondeklip Bay (NC).

Remarks: The only two known specimens are lost and to date no other specimens of this species have been observed despite extensive surveys along the west coast. The specific name “ durbanensis ” is misleading since the only known specimens were caught off the west coast in very deepwater.

Conservation status: DD (2019).

Notes

Published as part of Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4947 (1) on page 88, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614567

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Biodiversity

Family
Rajidae
Genus
Cruriraja
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rajiformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
von Bonde & Swart
Species
durbanensis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Cruriraja durbanensis (Bonde, 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.
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