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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classElasmobranchii
  4. ›orderTorpediniformes
  5. ›familyNarkidae
  6. ›genusHeteronarce
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IUCN NT · Near threatened

Natal Sleeper Ray

Heteronarce garmani Regan, 1921

Also calledNatal Drilvis (afr) · hoikkatorkkurausku (fin) · narcina Garmanova (ces) · Гетеронарка Гармана (rus)

First described in: Regan, Charles T. 1921. New fishes from deep water off the coast of Natal. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Including Zoology, Botany and Geology, Being a Continuation of the 'Magazine of Botany and Zoology', and of Louden and Charlesworth's 'Magazine of Natural History', Series 9 7: 412-420.

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

discussion

Remarks: A very rare, small, regionally endemic electric ray known only from the east coast of South Africa, Mozambique and Madagascar.

An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa

discussion

Remarks: A very rare, small, regionally endemic electric ray known only from the east coast of South Africa, Mozambique and Madagascar. Conservation status: NT (2020).

An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa

materials_examined

South Africa voucher material: Holotype: BMNH 1921.3. 1.3. Non-types: SAIAB 16568, SAIAB 10439 [former ORI B 834].

An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2419741.