. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. . Text-fig. i8.—Myliobaiis macroptera, after McClelland, India. Text-fig. 19.—Ventral view of head region of same. Quoy and Gaimard preserved the tail and deposited it in the Museum (of Paris?) and in their plates give a figure of it. A photograph of this draw- ing and of my 4-spined Beaufort specimen is shown in figure 7, plate iv. It is very noticeable that the large white spot found on the upper and back part of the dorsal of A. narinari is absent from that of the 5-spined ray. In all the dorsals of both Beaufort and Key West specimens exami
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. . Text-fig. i8.—Myliobaiis macroptera, after McClelland, India. Text-fig. 19.—Ventral view of head region of same. Quoy and Gaimard preserved the tail and deposited it in the Museum (of Paris?) and in their plates give a figure of it. A photograph of this draw- ing and of my 4-spined Beaufort specimen is shown in figure 7, plate iv. It is very noticeable that the large white spot found on the upper and back part of the dorsal of A. narinari is absent from that of the 5-spined ray. In all the dorsals of both Beaufort and Key West specimens examined by me, it has been present save in one only, and it a badly preserved one. This objection alone is, however, not of sufficient weight to negative the identity, but in the course of this research the present writer chanced upon a description by Miklouho-Maclay and Macleay (1886) of a spotted ray, Myliobatis ptinctatus, from the Admiralty and Hermit Islands. This ray also had: (i) an elongated snout turned up at the tip; (2) the upper surface (greenish-gray) dotted with (irregularly scattered dirty-white) spots; (3) a short tail with a dorsal followed by two serrated spines. So far the de- scriptions are quite parallel, and the figures of this latter ray (No. 21, plate viii) might well be taken for the former, but these authors go on to describe what the others do not, the teeth which are in "many longitudinal ; To the present writer it seems quite as easy to identify the 5-spined ray as Myliobatis punctatus as A. narinari, and because of these doubts he prefers to omit it from his table of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Carnegie Institution of Washington. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington
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