Cruriraja hulleyi Aschilman, Ebert, & Compagno, 2010

Roughnose Legskate

Cruriraja hulleyi Aschilman, Ebert, & Compagno, 2010: 364, figs. 1, 2a–b, 3a–b. Holotype: SAM 37618. Type locality: Off Port Elizabeth, South Africa, ca. 34°29.6'S, 25°28.3'E.

Local synonymy: Raia miraletus: Barnard, 1925: 68 (in part, for types of C. parcomaculata); Fowler, 1941: 375 (in part, KZN, South Africa), also including Raia parcomaculata von Bonde & Swart, 1923 (in synonymy). Cruriraja parcomaculata (non von Bonde & Swart = C. hulleyi Aschilman et al., 2010): Smith, 1964: 288, pls. 26–27 (Algoa Bay, EC); Hulley, 1970: 157, fig. 4, pl. 1a (in part); Hulley, 1972a: 86, figs. 58–59 (in part); Hulley, 1986: 117, fig. 25.3 (in part); Compagno et al., 1989: 84, pl. (in part); Compagno et al., 1991: 92; Ebert et al., 1991: 73; Stehmann, 1995: 103; Compagno, 1999: 117. Raja caudaspinosa (non von Bonde & Swart): Norman, 1935: 43 (in part). Raia smithi: Smith, 1949a: 66, fig. 68 (in part, South Africa, thought to be young of Bathyraja smithii); Smith, 1961a: 66, fig. 68; Smith, 1965: 66, fig. 68 (in part, South Africa). Cruriraja ‘ parcomaculata ’ sensu (Smith, 1964) (not von Bonde & Swart, 1923): Compagno & Ebert, 2007: 141, fig. 8b; Ebert & Compagno, 2007: 122; Ebert et al., 2008: 84. Cruriraja hulleyi: Aschilman et al., 2010: 364, figs. 1, 2a–b, 3a–b; Ebert, 2014: 174, fig. 193; Ebert, 2015: 58, fig. 79; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 147; Last et al., 2016f: 29; Weigmann et al., 2016a: 479, fig. 19.143; Weigmann, 2016: 963.

South Africa voucher material: Holotype: SAM 37618 . Paratype: SAM 37619 . Non-types: SAIAB 12844, SAIAB 21910, SAIAB 21911, SAIAB 21934, SAIAB 21935, SAIAB 22509, SAIAB 25744, SAIAB 25749, SAIAB 25752, SAIAB 25861, SAIAB 25862, SAIAB 25863, SAIAB 25864, SAIAB 25865, SAIAB 25866, SAIAB 25867, SAIAB 25868, SAIAB 25869, SAIAB 25870, SAIAB 25871, SAIAB 25872, SAIAB 25873, SAIAB 25874, SAIAB 25875, SAIAB 25876, SAIAB 25877, SAIAB 26011, SAIAB 26167, SAIAB 26168, SAIAB 26169, SAIAB 26170, SAIAB 26171, SAIAB 26172, SAIAB 26173, SAIAB 26174, SAIAB 26242, SAIAB 26251, SAIAB 26377, SAIAB 26378, SAIAB 26379, SAIAB 26380, SAIAB 26381, SAIAB 26437, SAIAB 26894, SAIAB 26895, SAIAB 26896, SAIAB 26897, SAIAB 26898, SAIAB 26899, SAIAB 27574, SAIAB 44297, SAIAB 48513, SAIAB 48522, SAIAB 189748 .

South African distribution: The Orange River (NC) to Algoa Bay (EC) and possibly to East London (EC).

Remarks: Compagno & Ebert (2007) raised the issue that C. triangularis is actually C. parcomaculata and that the Eastern and Western Cape Cruriraja was an undescribed species. Aschilman et al. (2010) reviewed the issue and described a new species, C. hulleyi, from the Eastern and Western Cape.

Conservation status: LC (2019).