Cruriraja parcomaculata ( von Bonde & Swart, 1923 )

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 : 89

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4697740

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Cruriraja parcomaculata ( von Bonde & Swart, 1923 )
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Cruriraja parcomaculata ( von Bonde & Swart, 1923) View in CoL View at ENA

Triangular Legskate

Raia parcomaculata von Bonde & Swart, 1923: 9 View in CoL , fig. 2, pl. 21. Syntypes: (several) BMNH 1935.7 .14.1 (1). Type locality: KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Local synonymy: Raja parcomaculata View in CoL : von Bonde & Swart, 1923: 9, fig. 2, pl. 21; Norman, 1935: 46 (KZN, South Africa). Raia miraletus : Barnard, 1925: 68 (in part, for types of C. parcomaculata View in CoL ); Fowler, 1941: 375 (in part, KZN, South Africa), also including Raia parcomaculata von Bonde & Swart, 1923 View in CoL (in synonymy). Cruriraja parcomaculata View in CoL : Bigelow & Schroeder, 1948a: 550 (KZN, South Africa); Bigelow & Schroeder, 1953: 315 (KZN, South Africa); Bigelow & Schroeder, 1962: 199 (KZN, South Africa); Wallace, 1967a: 11, fig. 6 (rare off Durban); Hulley, 1970: 157, fig. 4, pl. 1a (in part, holotype lost, off Durban); Hulley, 1972a: 86, figs. 58–59 (in part); Hulley, 1986: 117, fig. 25.3 (in part); Compagno et al., 1989: 84, pl. (in part); Ebert, 2014: 57, fig. 78; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 147; Last et al., 2016f: 29; Weigmann et al., 2016a: 480, fig. 21.6. Cruriraja triangularis: Smith, 1964: 290 View in CoL , pl. 28 (original description, = C. parcomaculata von Bonde & Swart, 1923 View in CoL ); Hulley, 1986: 117, fig. 25.3; Compagno et al., 1989: 84, pl.; Compagno, 1999: 117; Ebert & Compagno, 2007: 122; Aschliman et al., 2010: 369 (synonym of C. parcomaculata View in CoL ). Cruriraja parcomaculata ( von Bonde & Swart, 1923) View in CoL = Cruriraja View in CoL triangularis View in CoL ’ ( Smith, 1964): Compagno & Ebert, 2007: 143, fig. 8c; Ebert et al., 2008: 86; Weigmann, 2016: 963.

South Africa voucher material: BMNH 1935.7 . 14.1 (1) (several syntypes C. parcomaculata ). SAIAB [former RUSI] 50 (Paratype of C. triangularis ), SAIAB 10092 View Materials , SAIAB 10094 View Materials , SAIAB 10095 View Materials , SAIAB 10096 View Materials , SAIAB 10097 View Materials , SAIAB 188326 View Materials , SAIAB 188974 View Materials , SAIAB 189239 View Materials .

South African distribution: Occurs from Durban north to the KZN border with Mozambique.

Remarks: A very small skate with a limited range from about Durban to southern Mozambique. It has a complicated taxonomic history due to it being described as C. triangularis ( Smith, 1964) and most subsequent authors referring to the Eastern and Western Cape form as C. parcomaculata . The issue was resolved by Aschliman et al. (2010) who concluded that C. triangularis is a junior synonym of C. parcomaculata .

Conservation status: LC (2019).

SAIAB

South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity

RUSI

J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology (formerly of Rhodes University)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Elasmobranchii

Order

Rajiformes

Family

Rajidae

Genus

Cruriraja

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Cruriraja parcomaculata ( von Bonde & Swart, 1923 )

Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M. 2021
2021
Loc

Cruriraja triangularis

: Smith 1964: 290
1964
Loc

triangularis

: Smith 1964
1964
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Cruriraja parcomaculata

Bigelow & Schroeder 1948: 550
1948
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Cruriraja

Bigelow & Schroeder 1948
1948
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Raia miraletus

: Barnard 1925: 68
1925
Loc

Raia parcomaculata

von Bonde & Swart 1923: 9
1923
Loc

Raja parcomaculata

: von Bonde & Swart 1923: 9
1923
Loc

C. parcomaculata

: von Bonde & Swart 1923
1923
Loc

Raia parcomaculata

von Bonde & Swart 1923
1923
Loc

C. parcomaculata

von Bonde & Swart 1923
1923
Loc

C. parcomaculata

von Bonde & Swart 1923
1923
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