Tetronarce cowleyi Ebert, Haas, & de Carvalho, 2015

Cowley’s Torpedo Ray

Tetronarce cowleyi Ebert, Haas, & de Carvalho, 2015: 237, figs. 2–6. Holotype: SAIAB 25190. Type locality: off the west coast of South Africa, 33°39.0'S, 17°34.0'E, southeast Atlantic Ocean.

Local synonymy: Torpedo hebetans: Thompson, 1914: 159; von Bonde & Swart, 1923: 15. Narcobatus nobilianus: Barnard, 1925: 89; Norman, 1935: 37; Barnard, 1947: 30, pl. 4, fig. 10. Torpedo nobiliana: Fowler, 1936: 121, fig. 50; Fowler, 1941: 346; Smith, 1949a: 75, fig. 92; Smith, 1965: 75, fig. 92; Compagno, 1986: 112, fig. 23.2; Compagno et al., 1989: 80, pl.; Compagno et al., 1991: 89; Heemstra & Heemstra, 2004: 77; de Carvalho & Séret, 2016: 1374. Torpedo cf. nobiliana: Compagno, 1999: 116. Tetronarce nobiliana: NPOA, 2013: 51. Tetronarce cowleyi: da Silva et al., 2015: 248; Ebert, 2015: 162, fig. 173; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 146; de Carvalho et al., 2016: 187, fig. 18.2; Weigmann, 2016: 913.

South Africa voucher material: Holotype: SAIAB 25190 . Paratype: SAIAB 25347 . Non-types: SAIAB 25348, SAIAB 26253, SAIAB 26293, SAIAB 26456, SAIAB 26884, SAIAB 27157, SAIAB 27158, SAIAB 40981, SAIAB 48537 .

South African distribution: The Orange River (NC) to Algoa Bay (EC).

Remarks: A large, active swimming electric ray, but almost nothing known about it. The species appears to be a regional endemic to South Africa and Namibia.

Conservation status: LC (2019).