(Saldanha Bay to False Bay) Rosette sea squirt Aplidium flavolineatum (Sluiter, 1898a) (Saldanha Bay to Sodwana Bay) Order Phlebobranchia Family Ascidiidae Red-spotted ascidian, Ascidia incrassata Heller, 1878 (Saldanha Bay to Mozambique) Crevice ascidian, Ascidia caudata Heller, 1878 (Cape Peninsula) Family Cionidae Transparent ascidian, sea vase, Ciona intestinalis (Linnaeus, 1767) (whole coast, cosmopolitan) Order Stolidobranchia Family Pyuridae Red bait, Pyura stolonifera (Heller, 1878) (Namibia to Durban) Herdman's redbait, Pyura herdmani (Drasche, 1884) (Walvis Bay to Durban) Family Styelidae Ladder ascidian, Botrylloides leachi (Savigny, 1816) (West coast of Africa to southern KwaZulu-Natal) White-ringed ascidian, Botrylloides magnicoecum (Hartmeyer, 1912) (Orange River to Durban) syn. Botryllus magnicoecus Fenced ascidian, Botryllus closionis Monniot, Monniot, Griffiths & Schleyer, 2001 (Atlantic coast Cape Peninsula) Seaweed ascidian, Botryllus elegans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) (Luderitz to Cape Agulhas) Variable ascidian, Botryllus gregalis (Sluiter, 1898) (Cape Columbine to Durban) Golden star ascidian, Botryllus schlosseri (Pallas, 1766) (Cape Columbine to Port St Johns (alien)) Meandering ascidian, Botryllus maeandrius (Sluiter, 1898) (Cape Peninsula to Mossel Bay) Angular ascidian, Styela angularis (Stimpson, 1855) (Atlantic coast of Cape Peninsula to Port Elizabeth) , Gynandrocarpa placenta (Herdman, 1886) (Cape Peninsula to Algoa Bay) Vertebrates Fishes Agnatha – jawless fishes (cyclostomes) Order Myxiniformes – hagfishes Family: Myxinidae Sixgill hagfish or snotslang, Eptatretus hexatrema (Müller, 1834) (Walvis Bay to Durban) Fivegill hagfish, Eptatretus profundus Barnard, 1923 (off Cape Point) Cape hagfish, Myxine capensis Regan, 1913 (Cape of Good Hope) Gnathostomata – jawed fishes Chondrichthyes – cartilaginous fishes Elasmobranchii – sharks and rays Order Myliobatiformes – stingrays Family Myliobatidae – eagle rays Manta, Manta birostris(Donndorff, 1798) (possibly circumtropical, from the Cape eastwards) Eagle ray, Myliobatis aquila (Linnaeus, 1758) (Namibia to KwaZulu-Natal) Bullray, Pteromylaeus bovinus (Saint-Hilaire, 1817) (south-western Cape to Zanzibar) Order Rajiformes – rays, skates and guitarfish Family Dasyatidae – stingrays Short tailed stingray, Dasyatis brevicaudata (Hutton, 1875) (False Bay to Delagoa Bay) Blue stingray, Dasyatis chrysonota (Smith, 1828) (Central Angola to Delagoa Bay) (syn. Dasyatis marmoratis) Family Rajidae – skates Bathyraja smithii (Müller & Henle, 1841) (Agulhas bank and west of Cape Town) Cruriraja durbanensis (von Bonde and Swart, 1923) (off Western Cape province) Cruriraja parcomaculata von Bonde and Swart, 1923 (Lüderitz to Durban) Neoraja stehmanni (Hulley, 1972) (west of Cape Town to south of Agulhas Bank) Raja caudaspinosa von Bonde and Swart, 1923 (Luderitz to Cape Point) Thornback skate, Raja clavata Linnaeus, 1758 (Walvis Bay to Durban) Raja confundens Hulley, 1970 (West coast from 19°S to