Amblyraja taaf ( Meisner, 1987 )

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 : 78

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scientific name	Amblyraja taaf ( Meisner, 1987 )
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Amblyraja taaf ( Meisner, 1987) View in CoL View at ENA

Whiteleg Skate

Raja taaf Meisner, 1987: 1840 View in CoL , figs. 1–2. Holotype: ZIK 91514. Type locality: Lena Bank GoogleMaps , 53°01'S, 44°25'E, southwestern Indian Ocean.

Local synonymy: Raja radiata View in CoL (non Donovan): Hulley, 1970: 193, fig. 13, pl. 7a; Hulley, 1972a: 86, figs. 58– 59; Hulley, 1986: 124, figs. 25.16; Compagno et al., 1989: 88, pl. Raja (Amblyraja) radiata View in CoL (non Donovan): Compagno et al., 1991: 93; Ebert et al., 1991: 79. Amblyraja cf. radiata: Compagno, 1999: 116 View in CoL . Amblyraja taaf: Compagno & Ebert, 2007: 133 View in CoL , fig. 4c; Ebert & Compagno, 2007: 119; Ebert, 2015: 172, fig. 188; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 147; Last et al., 2016g: 217, fig. 19.8; Weigmann, 2016: 941.

South Africa voucher material: SAM (2) uncatalogued specimens.

South African distribution: Known from two specimens caught west of Cape Town (WC).

Remarks: This appears to be a sub-Antarctic species that is presently known only from off Kerguelen Islands in addition to the one location off Cape Town (WC) ( Last et al., 2016a).

Conservation status: DD (2020).