east of Cape Point) Raja dissimilis Hulley, 1970 (west of Cape Town) Raja leopardus von Bonde and Swart, 1923 (west coast from 18°S to 35°S) Twineye skate, Raja miraletus Linnaeus, 1758 (False Bay to Durban) Raja pullopunctata Smith, 1964 (Luderitz to Mozambique) Raja ravidula Hulley, 1970 (off Cape Town) Raja robertsi Hulley, 1970 (west of Cape Town) Raja spinacidermis Barnard, 1923 (off west coast) Biscuit skate or false thornback skate, Raja straeleni Poll, 1951 (West Africa to East London) Blancmange skate, Raja Wallacei Hulley, 1970 (Cape to Limpopo river mouth) Spearnose skate, Rostroraja alba (Lacepède, 1803) (West Africa to Madagascar) (syn. Raja alba) Family Rhinobatidae – guitarfish Lesser sandshark or lesser guitarfish, Rhinobatos annulatus Smith in Müller & Henle, 1841 (Cape Columbine to Mozambique) Bluntnose guitarfish, Rhinobatos blochii Müller & Henle, 1841 (Cape to Walvis Bay) Order Torpediniformes – electric rays Family Narkidae Onefin electric ray or torpedo ray, Narke capensis (Gmelin, 1789) (Atlantic coast of Cape Peninsula to Madagascar) Family Torpedinidae Blackspotted electric ray, Torpedo fuscomaculata Peters, 1855 (Cape Columbine to Mozambique) Atlantic electric ray, Torpedo nobiliana Bonaparte, 1835 (Western Cape coast to Algoa Bay) Order Carcharhiniformes – ground sharks Family Carcharhinidae – requiem sharks Copper shark, Carcharhinus brachyurus (Günther, 1870) (Namibia to Durban) Dusky shark, Carcharhinus obscurus (Lesueur, 1818) (Cape Point to Mozambique) Blue shark, Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758) (off south-western Cape coast) Family Scyliorhinidae – catsharks Apristurus microps (Gilchrist, 1922) (Western Cape to Agulhas) Apristurus saldanha (Barnard 1925) (Saldanha Bay) Tiger catshark, Halaelurus natalensis (Regan, 1904) (Saldanha Bay to Algoa Bay) Puffadder shyshark or happy Eddie, Haploblepharus edwardsii (Schinz, 1822) (Cape Point to central KwaZulu-Natal) Dark shyshark, dusky shyshark or skaamoog, Haploblepharus pictus (Müller & Henle, 1838) (Namibia to Cape Agulhas) Holohalaelurus regani (Gilchrist, 1922) (south-western Cape to Zanzibar) Pyjama catshark or striped catshark, Poroderma africanum (Gmelin, 1789) (Cape Columbine to central KwaZulu-Natal) Leopard catshark, Poroderma pantherinum (Müller & Henle, 1838) (Cape Columbine to Durban) Yellowspotted catshark, Scylliorhinus capensis (Smith, 1838) (south-western Cape to KwaZulu-Natal) Family Sphyrnidae – hammerhead sharks Smooth hammerhead, Sphyrna zygaena (Linnaeus, 1758) (south Cape to southern Mozambique, occasionally on west coast. Warm temperate waters of both hemispheres) Family Triakidae – houndsharks Soupfin shark, Galeorhinus galeus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Angola to East London) Smooth-hound shark, Mustelus mustelus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Namibia to KwaZulu-Natal) Whitespotted smooth-hound, Mustelus palumbes Smith, 1957 (Walvis Bay to Algoa Bay) Spotted gully shark, Triakis megalopterus (Smith, 1839) (Walvis Bay to East London)