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records for it up to date have been from close to the shore, but there is no report of its 

 presence in fresh water (see also Habits of the genus, p. 436). 



Range. Localities where the presence oi M. goodei (as contrasted with M.fremin- 

 villii) has been positively established by published descriptions or illustrations, or by 

 our Study Material, include South Carolina; "Central America";" Rio de Janeiro and 

 Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; and Uruguay.^^ Jt seems probable also that some, perhaps 

 all, of the published reports of M. aquila from the lower Parana River, from the estuary 

 of the Rio de la Plata, and from northern Argentina (see References, p. 450) were 

 based on M. goodei. The fact that its known range extends farther poleward in the 

 southern hemisphere than that of M.freminvillii lends special interest to its scarcity off 

 the South Atlantic seaboard of the United States, where M. freminviUii is well known 

 as a summer visitor (p. 444). 



Synonyms and References: 



Myliobatis goodei Garman, Proc. U. S. nat. Mus., 8, 1885: 39 (descr., cf. M.freminvillii, Cent. Amer.); Jor- 

 dan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. nat. Mus., 47 (3), 1898: 2755 (descr., after Garman 1885, Cent. Amer.); 

 Engelhardt, Abh. bayer. Akad. Wiss., Suppl. .^ (3), 1913: 104 (range); Garman, Mem. Harv. Mus. 

 comp. Zool., j6, 1913: 430 (descr.. Cent. Amer. and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Meek and Hilde- 

 brand. Field Mus. Publ. Zool, 15 (i), 1923: 90 (descr.); Smith, Biol. Rev. [Cambridge], 11, 1936: 

 65 (listed, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, by ref. to Garman, 1913). 



Aetobatus goodei Jordan, Evermann and Clark, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (1928), 2, 1930: 31 (listed, Cent. Amer. 

 to Brazil). 



Holorhinus goodei Fowler, Arqu. Zool. Estad. Sao Paulo, J, 1942: 132 (listed, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). 



Probable Synonyms and References: 



Myliobatis aquila von Ihering, Rev. Mus. paul., 2, 1 897 : 3 5 (stom. contents, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; probably 

 M. goodei because later considered by Ribeiro 1907 as distinct from M.freminvillii); Schreiner and Ri- 

 beiro. Arch. Mus. nac. Rio de J., 12, 1903 : 82, in part (rep. for Rio Grande do Sul by ref. to von Ihering, 

 1897; but rep. for Rio de la Plata by ref to Berg 1895 not identifiable as to species); Ribeiro, Arch. 

 Mus. nac. Rio de J., 14, 1907: 191 (cf M.freminvillii, coasts of south. Brazil); Fauna brasil., Peixes, 

 2 (i) Ease, r, 1923: 46 (same as Ribeiro 1907). 



Holorhinus aquila Fowler, Arqu. Zool. Estad. Sao Paulo, J, 1942: 132 (listed, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, by 

 ref to Schreiner and Ribeiro 1903). 



Not Raja aquila Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., I, 1758: 232. 



References either to M.freminvillii or to M. goodei, but not further identifiable: 



Myliobatis aquila Berg, An. Mus. nac. B.Aires, (2) I, 1895: 17 (listed, Montevideo, Rio de la Plata); Lahille, 

 Rev. Mus. La Plata, 6, 1895: 276 (listed, Rio de la Plata by ref to Berg, 1895); Schreiner and Ribeiro, 

 Arch. Mus. nac. Rio de J., 12, 1903: 82 (rep. for Montevideo, Rio de la Plata, by ref to Berg, 1895, 

 but rep. for Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, by ref. to von Ihering 1897 probably M. goodei; see above); 

 Eigenmann, Rep. Princeton Exped. Patagonia, 5 (i), 1909: 348 (listed, La Plata R., by ref. to Berg 

 1895); Rep. Princeton Exped. Patagonia, J (2), 1910: 378 (listed, Rio de la Plata); Devincenzi, An. 

 Mus. nac. Montevideo, (2) J, 1920: 130 (listed, Uruguay); Marelli, Elenc. Sist Fauna B. Aires, Mem. 

 Ministr. Obras Publ. B.Aires (1922-1923), Fishes, 1924: 549 (listed. Mar del Plata, Argentina, and 

 Rio de la Plata); Devincenzi and Barattini, An. Mus. nac. Montevideo, (2) 2, 1926: Suppl. Album 

 Ictiol., pi. 5, fig. 3 (ill. not ident. as to species); McDonagh, Rev. Mus. La Plata, 24^ 1934^ 95' foot- 

 note I (listed. Mar Chiquita, a salt lagoon, north. Argentina); Pozzi and Bordale, An. Soc. cient. argent., 

 120, 1935: 154 (listed, Lat. 35-40° S., Argentina); Smith, Biol. Rev. [Cambridge], JJ, 1936: 65 (listed, 



52. Garman, Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 8, 1885: 39. 



53. A specimen in the collection of the U. S. National Museum (No. 87685) is so labelled. 



