Tetronarce cowleyi Ebert, Haas, & de Carvalho, 2015

Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, Zootaxa 4947 (1), pp. 1-127 : 71

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4697706
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scientific name	Tetronarce cowleyi Ebert, Haas, & de Carvalho, 2015
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Tetronarce cowleyi Ebert, Haas, & de Carvalho, 2015 View in CoL

Cowley’s Torpedo Ray

Tetronarce cowleyi Ebert, Haas, & de Carvalho, 2015: 237 View in CoL , figs. 2–6. Holotype: SAIAB 25190 View Materials . Type locality: off the west coast of South Africa, 33°39.0'S, 17°34.0'E, southeast Atlantic Ocean.

Local synonymy: Torpedo hebetans View in CoL : Thompson, 1914: 159; von Bonde & Swart, 1923: 15. Narcobatus nobilianus View in CoL : Barnard, 1925: 89; Norman, 1935: 37; Barnard, 1947: 30, pl. 4, fig. 10. Torpedo nobiliana View in CoL : Fowler, 1936: 121, fig. 50; Fowler, 1941: 346; Smith, 1949a: 75, fig. 92; Smith, 1965: 75, fig. 92; Compagno, 1986: 112, fig. 23.2; Compagno et al., 1989: 80, pl.; Compagno et al., 1991: 89; Heemstra & Heemstra, 2004: 77; de Carvalho & Séret, 2016: 1374. Torpedo cf. nobiliana View in CoL : Compagno, 1999: 116. Tetronarce nobiliana View in CoL : NPOA, 2013: 51. Tetronarce cowleyi View in CoL : da Silva et al., 2015: 248; Ebert, 2015: 162, fig. 173; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 146; de Carvalho et al., 2016: 187, fig. 18.2; Weigmann, 2016: 913.

South Africa voucher material: Holotype: SAIAB 25190 View Materials . Paratype: SAIAB 25347 View Materials . Non-types: SAIAB 25348 View Materials , SAIAB 26253 View Materials , SAIAB 26293 View Materials , SAIAB 26456 View Materials , SAIAB 26884 View Materials , SAIAB 27157 View Materials , SAIAB 27158 View Materials , SAIAB 40981 View Materials , SAIAB 48537 View Materials .

South African distribution: The Orange River (NC) to Algoa Bay (EC).

Remarks: A large, active swimming electric ray, but almost nothing known about it. The species appears to be a regional endemic to South Africa and Namibia.

Conservation status: LC (2019).