Cruriraja durbanensis ( 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 : 88

publication ID

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4697738

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Cruriraja durbanensis ( von Bonde & Swart, 1923 )
status

 

Cruriraja durbanensis ( von Bonde & Swart, 1923) View in CoL

Smoothnose Legskate

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

Local synonymy: Raia durbanensis View in CoL : von Bonde & Swart, 1923: 11, fig. 1, pl. 22; Barnard, 1925: 69. Cruriraja durbanensis View in CoL : 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 View in CoL : Smith, 1949a: 66 (in part Raia durbanensis View in CoL 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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Elasmobranchii

Order

Rajiformes

Family

Rajidae

Genus

Cruriraja

Loc

Cruriraja durbanensis ( von Bonde & Swart, 1923 )

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

Raia spinacidermis

Smith 1949: 66
1949
Loc

Cruriraja durbanensis

Bigelow & Schroeder 1948: 550
1948
Loc

Raia durbanensis von Bonde & Swart, 1923: 11

: von Bonde & Swart 1923: 11
1923
Loc

Raia durbanensis

: von Bonde & Swart 1923: 11
1923
Loc

Raia durbanensis

: von Bonde & Swart 1923: 11
1923
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