Cruriraja hulleyi Aschilman, Ebert, & Compagno, 2010

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 : 88-89

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scientific name	Cruriraja hulleyi Aschilman, Ebert, & Compagno, 2010
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Cruriraja hulleyi Aschilman, Ebert, & Compagno, 2010 View in CoL View at ENA

Roughnose Legskate

Cruriraja hulleyi Aschilman, Ebert, & Compagno, 2010: 364 , figs. 1, 2a–b, 3a–b. Holotype: SAM 37618. Type locality: Off Port Elizabeth GoogleMaps , 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 View Materials , SAIAB 21910 View Materials , SAIAB 21911 View Materials , SAIAB 21934 View Materials , SAIAB 21935 View Materials , SAIAB 22509 View Materials , SAIAB 25744 View Materials , SAIAB 25749 View Materials , SAIAB 25752 View Materials , SAIAB 25861 View Materials , SAIAB 25862 View Materials , SAIAB 25863 View Materials , SAIAB 25864 View Materials , SAIAB 25865 View Materials , SAIAB 25866 View Materials , SAIAB 25867 View Materials , SAIAB 25868 View Materials , SAIAB 25869 View Materials , SAIAB 25870 View Materials , SAIAB 25871 View Materials , SAIAB 25872 View Materials , SAIAB 25873 View Materials , SAIAB 25874 View Materials , SAIAB 25875 View Materials , SAIAB 25876 View Materials , SAIAB 25877 View Materials , SAIAB 26011 View Materials , SAIAB 26167 View Materials , SAIAB 26168 View Materials , SAIAB 26169 View Materials , SAIAB 26170 View Materials , SAIAB 26171 View Materials , SAIAB 26172 View Materials , SAIAB 26173 View Materials , SAIAB 26174 View Materials , SAIAB 26242 View Materials , SAIAB 26251 View Materials , SAIAB 26377 View Materials , SAIAB 26378 View Materials , SAIAB 26379 View Materials , SAIAB 26380 View Materials , SAIAB 26381 View Materials , SAIAB 26437 View Materials , SAIAB 26894 View Materials , SAIAB 26895 View Materials , SAIAB 26896 View Materials , SAIAB 26897 View Materials , SAIAB 26898 View Materials , SAIAB 26899 View Materials , SAIAB 27574 View Materials , SAIAB 44297 View Materials , SAIAB 48513 View Materials , SAIAB 48522 View Materials , SAIAB 189748 View Materials .

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).