Urogymnus asperrimus ( Bloch & Schneider, 1801 )

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 : 96

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scientific name	Urogymnus asperrimus ( Bloch & Schneider, 1801 )
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Urogymnus asperrimus ( Bloch & Schneider, 1801) View in CoL View at ENA

Porcupine Ray

Raja asperrima Bloch & Schneider, 1801: 367 View in CoL . Holotype: ZMB 7836 View Materials (dry skin, partial specimen). Type locality: Mumbai, India.

Local synonymy: Urogymnus africanus: Smith, 1952a: 225 View in CoL ; Smith, 1961a: 512, fig. 82a: Smith, 1965: 512, fig. 82a. Urogymnus asperrimus: Compagno & Heemstra, 1984: 3 View in CoL ; Compagno, 1986: 141, fig. 30.15; Compagno et al., 1989: 110, pl.; Compagno, 1999: 117; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 147; Last et al., 2016h: 363; Last et al., 2016i: 614, fig. 25.85; Weigmann, 2016: 977.

South Africa voucher material: None known in South African museums.

South African distribution: Along the KZN coast to the Mozambique border.

Remarks: A very little known species in South Africa, it is wide-ranging throughout the tropical Indo-West Pacific. Generally rare, but can be locally common at certain locations (e.g. in parts of Australia).

Conservation status: VU (2016).