Malacoraja spinacidermis

• Main Authors: Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P., Kyne, Peter M.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Rajiformes; Rajidae; Malacoraja; Malacoraja spinacidermis; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4697724; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/039287A19538FFDFCFF75F1BFDE927B3

Malacoraja spinacidermis (Barnard, 1923) Roughskin Skate Raia spinacidermis Barnard, 1923: 440. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1935.7.19.7. Type locality: South Africa (exact locality unknown). Local synonymy : Raia spinacidermis : Barnard, 1923: 440; Barnard, 1925: 73, fig. 6, pl. 4: Fowler, 1941: 392; Smith, 1949a: 66 (in part, South Africa, not Raia durbanensis , in synonymy); Smith, 1965: 66 (in part, South Africa).? Raia plutonia : Barnard, 1925: 68 (in part, also including holotype of Raia albalinea von Bonde & Swart, 1923 = R. caudaspinosa ). Raja spinacidermis : Norman, 1935: 46; Hulley, 1970: 173, pl. 4; Hulley, 1972a: 86, figs. 58–59; Hulley & Stehmann, 1977: 227, figs. 1–5; Hulley, 1986: 125, fig. 25.19. Raja ( Malacoraja ) spinacidermis : Compagno et al ., 1989, pl.; Compagno et al ., 1991: 97; Ebert et al ., 1991: 76. Malacoraja spinacidermis : Compagno, 1999: 116; Stehmann, 1995: 28; Compagno & Ebert, 2007: 137, fig. 5e; Ebert & Compagno, 2007: 120; Ebert et al ., 2008: 91; NPOA, 2013: 55; da Silva et al ., 2015: 247; Ebert, 2015: 181, fig. 205; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 147; Last et al ., 2016f: 23; Last et al ., 2016g: 296, fig. 19.87; McEachran & Séret, 2016: 1386; Séret, 2016: 1345; Weigmann, 2016: 950. South Africa voucher material : Holotype: BMNH 1935.7.19.7. Non-type: SAIAB 27330. South African distribution : The Orange River (NP) to Cape Point (WC). Remarks : This species also occurs in the North Atlantic, but its distribution north of South Africa is patchy. Morphological and molecular comparison of specimens from South Africa and the North Atlantic may confirm if it is the same species or if they are different. Conservation status : LC (2020). Published as part of Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4947 (1) on page 82, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614567