Bathytoshia brevicaudata ( Hutton, 1875 )

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 : 91

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7F3B4794-65CF-4691-A330-78A423F2606F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4697742

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039287A1-9533-FFD4-CFF7-5A9BFDE92356

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Plazi

scientific name

Bathytoshia brevicaudata ( Hutton, 1875 )
status

 

Bathytoshia brevicaudata ( Hutton, 1875) View in CoL View at ENA

Shorttail Stingray

Trygon brevicaudata Hutton, 1875: 317 View in CoL . Holotype (unique): OM A.75.02 (stuffed). Type locality: Dunedin Harbor , New Zealand.

Local synonymy: Trygon schreineri View in CoL : Gilchrist, 1913: 33, fig. (original description, holotype SAM 16053, caught off rocks at St James in False Bay, South Africa). Dasybatis schreineri : von Bonde & Swart, 1923: 16; Barnard, 1925: 76; Smith, 1949a: 70; Barnard, 1959: 27. Dasyatis brevicaudatus: Smith, 1949a: 70 View in CoL , fig. 81; Smith, 1961a: 70, fig. 81; Smith, 1965: 70, fig. 81; Wallace, 1967c: 37, figs. 18–19; Compagno & Heemstra, 1984: 3; Compagno, 1999: 117; NPOA, 2013: 60. Dasyatis brevicaudata: Compagno, 1986: 136 View in CoL , fig. 30.1; Compagno et al., 1989: 102, pl; da Silva et al., 2015: 246; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 147; Weigmann, 2016: 964. Bathytoshia brevicaudata View in CoL : Last et al., 2016h: 354; Last et al., 2016i: 530, fig. 25.1.

South Africa voucher material: Holotype: SAM 16053. Non-types: SAIAB 7866 View Materials [ex ORI B805 View Materials ], SAIAB 26469 View Materials , SAIAB 26470 View Materials , SAIAB 27444 View Materials .

South African distribution: Saldanha Bay, west coast (WC) to Kosi Bay, northern KZN.

Remarks: The first record of this species from South African waters was caught by an angler and described by Gilchrist (1913) as a new species ( Trygon schreineri ). However, Wallace (1967c) examined additional specimens from South Africa and compared them with New Zealand specimens and concluded that they were the same species and that Trygon schreineri (= D. brevicaudata ) should be relegated to junior synonym status.

Conservation status: LC (2016).

SAM

South African Museum

ORI

Ocean Research Institute

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Elasmobranchii

Order

Myliobatiformes

Family

Dasyatidae

Genus

Bathytoshia

Loc

Bathytoshia brevicaudata ( Hutton, 1875 )

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

Trygon brevicaudata

Hutton, F. W. 1875: 317
1875
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