Species Urolophus expansus McCulloch, 1916

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• Urolophus expansus McCulloch, A.R. 1916. Report on some fishes obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South and South-Western Australia. Part 4. Biological Results of the Fishing Experiments carried on by the F.I.S. Endeavour 1909-1914 4(4): 169-199 figs 1-2 pls 49-58 [178, fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM I.14040 190 mm wide (formerly AM E.3503; smallest of two specimens used in original description), Great Australian Bight.
  Paralectotype(s) AM E.3501 208 mm wide, Great Australian Bight; AM E.3500 133 mm wide, Great Australian Bight; AM E.3505 110 mm wide, Great Australian Bight; AM E.3502 130 mm wide, Great Australian Bight; AM E.3504 120 mm wide, Great Australian Bight.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Whitley, G.P. 1940. The Fishes of Australia. Part 1. The sharks, rays, devil-fish, and other primitive fishes of Australia and New Zealand. Sydney : Roy. Zool. Soc. N.S.W. 280 pp. 303 figs. [217] (possibly designated earlier; lectotype selection based on specimen figured by McCulloch, but figure reversed when printed).

 

Introduction

In the original description no type specimen was designated. McCulloch (1916) indicated that the description was based on two specimens (190-200 mm wide) and indicated that the smallest was figured, with the tail curved to the left. That drawing was subsequently modified, with shading added, but otherwise identical to the original drawing. McCulloch sent that drawing to Waite who published it in 1921, but the image was reversed with the tail curved to the right. In the Endeavour register the type is listed as E.3501, which is the largest specimen with the tail pointing to the right and 3500 and 3502-3505 listed as cotypes. It is possible that McCulloch deliberately reversed the image to make it more similar to the larger specimen with the tail curving to the right, or it was inadvertently reversed in printing. However, Whitley (1940) shows the same image as published by Waite, with the tail curved to the right and labels the drawing as the lectotype, with a disc width of 7.5 inches (= 190 mm). We have not found an earlier designation of the lectotype and here accept the original figured specimen as being designated the lectotype by Whitley. McCulloch also indicated that he had three additional specimens (113-133 mm wide) agreeing with the larger specimens, but there are a total of six specimens listed as types in the register, and it is assumed that the listing of three specimens was an error for four specimens.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Port Lincoln, SA to off Perth, WA (31º05´S); temperate.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southern Province (8)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, marine, soft bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

140–420 m.

 

General References

Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds) 2008. Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp. [132]

Last, P.R., Yearsley, G. K. & White, W.T. 2016. Stingarees. Family Urolophidae. pp. 676-705 in Last, P.R., White, W.T., Carvalho, M.R. de, Séret, B., Stehmann, M.F.W. & Naylor, G.J.P. (eds.). Rays of the World. Clayton South, Victoria : CSIRO Publishing 790 pp. [690]

Last, P.R. & Gomon, M.F. 1994. Family Urolophidae. pp. 172-181 figs 150-159 in Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [177]

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 1994. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Canberra : CSIRO Australia 513 pp. 84 pls. [433]

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 2009. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Australia 2, 550 pp. [414]

McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part I. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 1–144 [27]

Munro, I.S.R. 1961. Handbook of Australian fishes. Nos 1–42. Australian Fisheries Newsletter 15–17, 19, 20: 1-172 [published as separates 1956–1961] [18] (128)

Paxton, J.R., Gates, J.E. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Urolophidae. pp. 197-202 in Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & Allen, G.R. Fishes. In, Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 35. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp. [200]

Paxton, J.R., Hoese, D.F., Allen, G.R. & Hanley, J.E. (eds) 1989. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Pisces: Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 665 pp. [47]

Waite, E.R. 1921. Illustrated catalogue of the fishes of South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 2(1): 1-208 293 figs pl. 1 [33, fig. 47]

Whitley, G.P. 1940. The Fishes of Australia. Part 1. The sharks, rays, devil-fish, and other primitive fishes of Australia and New Zealand. Sydney : Roy. Zool. Soc. N.S.W. 280 pp. 303 figs. [218]

Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [34] (146)

 

Common Name References

Munro, I.S.R. 1961. Handbook of Australian fishes. Nos 1–42. Australian Fisheries Newsletter 15–17, 19, 20: 1-172 [published as separates 1956–1961] [18] (Wide Stingaree)

Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Wide Stingaree)

Waite, E.R. 1928. Check list of the marine fishes of South Australia. Journal of the Pan-Pacific Research Institute 3(1): 3-13 [4] (Broadbacked Stingaree)

Yearsley, G.K., Last, P.R. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Standard names of Australian fishes. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper 9: 1-64 [17] (Wide Stingaree)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Jun-2024	MYLIOBATIFORMES	22-Jun-2022	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese Dr Matthew Lockett
16-Apr-2012		08-Aug-2014	MODIFIED
		25-Mar-2010	MODIFIED