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Narke capensis

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Narke capensis (Gmelin, 1789)

Onefin Sleeper Ray

Raja capensis Gmelin, 1789: 1512. Types: No known types. Type locality: Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Also apparently spelled rapensis, but this appears to have been typesetting error for capensis.

Local synonymy: Raja capensis: Gmelin, 1789: 1512. Astrape capensis: M̹ller & Henle, 1841: 130; Bleeker, 1860b: 58; G̹nther, 1870: 454; Gilchrist, 1902: 168; Regan, 1908a: 242; Gilchrist & Thompson, 1916: 287. Torpedo capensis: Gronow, in Gray, 1854: 13 (original description). Narke capensis: von Bonde & Swart, 1923: 15; Barnard, 1925: 92, fig. 3, pl. 5; Fowler, 1941: 349; Smith, 1949a: 74, fig. 89; Barnard, 1959: 30, fig. 11, pl. 4; Smith, 1964: 292, pl. 29a; Smith, 1965: 74, fig. 89; Wallace, 1967a: 59, fig. 29; Compagno, 1986: 114, fig. 24.2; Compagno et al., 1989: 82, pl.; Compagno, 1999: 116; Compagno & Heemstra, 2007: 43; NPOA, 2013: 52; da Silva et al., 2015: 247; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 146; de Carvalho, 2016: 177, fig. 16.5; Weigmann, 2016: 912.

South Africa voucher material: SAIAB 10091, SAIAB 11932, SAIAB 12010, SAIAB 20030, SAIAB 26506, SAIAB 44283, SAIAB 44284, SAIAB 44285, SAIAB 44286, SAIAB 44290, SAIAB 48509, SAIAB 48530, SAIAB 48533, SAIAB 48534, SAIAB 48836, SAIAB 55006, SAIAB 61134.

South African distribution: Endemic. Cape of Good Hope (WC) to at least central KZN.

Remarks: A common, but very poorly known electric ray endemic to South Africa.

Conservation status: LC (2019).

Notes

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 71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614567

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/039287A1952FFFC8CFF75B2BFDE923CA

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Family
Narkidae
Genus
Narke
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Torpediniformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Gmelin
Species
capensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Narke capensis (Gmelin, 1789) sec. Ebert, Wintner & Kyne, 2021

References

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  • M ʾ ller, J. & Henle, F. G. J. (1841) s. n. In: Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen. Plagiostomen, Berlin, pp. 103 - 200.
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