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"Young sting-ray" of the sealers.

Caught by seine, 4th May, 1841.
No.

28 .-- Near PLATYRHINA .-- Native name, PARETT.

"Fiddler" of the sealers; Green skate of the settlers.

Eye dullish yellow; pupil sea-green, glaring in some lights; teeth transverse, like a file; spiracles two, large, behind the eye, in the same cavity; belly white, terminating at the caudal fin.
Very common in the sheltered bays, close in shore among the weeds.


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