Rajella dissimilis (Hulley, 1970) Ghost Skate Raja dissimilis Hulley, 1970: 199, figs. 15, pl. 10 (figs. a–b). Holotype: ZMH 25258 [ex ISH 46-1967 a]. Type locality: West of Cape Town, South Africa, 33°47'S, 17°14'E, southeastern Atlantic. Local synonymy: Raja dissimilis: Hulley, 1970: 199, figs. 15, pl. 10; Hulley, 1972a: 86, figs. 58–59; Hulley, 1986: 121, fig. 25.10; Stehmann, 1995: 79. Raja (Rajella) dissimilis: Compagno et al., 1989: 98, pl.; Compagno et al., 1991: 104; Ebert et al., 1991: 77. Rajella dissimilis: Compagno, 1999: 116; Compagno & Ebert, 2007: 135, fig. 5b; Ebert & Compagno, 2007: 121; Ebert et al., 2008: 95; Ebert, 2014: 75, fig. 120; Ebert, 2015: 185, fig. 211; Weigmann et al., 2014a: 384; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 147; Last et al., 2016f: 19; Last et al., 2016g: 339, fig. 19.130; McEachran & Séret, 2016: 1402; Weigmann, 2016: 958. South Africa voucher material: Holotype: ZMH 25258. Non-types: SAIAB 27140, SAIAB 27141, SAIAB 27142, SAIAB 53231. South African distribution: The Orange River (NC) to St Francis Bay (EC). Remarks: A little known, deep-sea skate that is often misidentified with other similar “grey” skates, but its distribution is now known to include northwest Africa. Conservation status: LC (2004).

Published as part of Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4947 (1) on pages 85-86, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614567