Torpedo sinuspersici Olfers, 1831

Marbeled Electric Ray

Torpedo sinuspersici Olfers, 1831: 15, 17. Types: No types known. Type locality: Persian Gulf.

Local synonymy: Torpedo marmorata: G̹nther, 1870: 450 (in part); Gilchrist, 1902: 167; Regan, 1908a: 242; Thompson, 1914: 159 (in part); Gilchrist & Thompson, 1916: 286; Smith, 1949a: 75, fig. 91; Davies, 1964: 32, pl. 2; Smith, 1965, 75, fig. 91; van Bruggen, 1965: 191. Narcacion sinus-persici: Garman, 1913: 309; von Bonde & Swart, 1923: 15. Narcacion marmoratus: von Bonde & Swart, 1923: 15. Narcobatus marmoratus: Barnard, 1925: 90, fig. 4, pl. 5. Torpedo panthera: Fowler, 1925b: 193; Fowler, 1934b: 409; Fowler, 1935: 364. Torpedo sinuspersici: Fowler, 1941: 344; Fraser-Brunner, 1949: 946, fig. 1; Wallace, 1967a: 53, fig. 27; Compagno, 1986: 113, fig. 23.3; Compagno et al., 1989: 82, pl.; Compagno, 1999: 116; Heemstra & Heemstra, 2004: 76; NPOA, 2013: 52; da Silva et al., 2015: 248; Ebert et al., 2015: 237; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 146; de Carvalho et al., 2016: 201, fig. 18.16; Weigmann, 2016: 916.

South Africa voucher material: SAIAB 11129, SAIAB 19443, SAIAB 44195, SAIAB 44295, SAIAB 48517, SAIAB 48833, SAIAB 48834, SAIAB 88448, SAIAB 88521, SAIAB 189092, SAIAB 201956.

South African distribution: Port Alfred (EC) to KZN.

Remarks: The WIO Torpedo sinuspersici complex is currently under investigation to clarify the status of the various nominal species (DAE & M.R. de Carvalho, unpubl. data).

Conservation status: DD (2019).