Fishes of the Western North Atlantic 427 



Is., Geogr. Soc. Baltimore, 1905: 296 (listed, Nassau, Bahamas); Cole and Barbour, Bull. Mus. comp. 



Zool Harv., ^O, 1906: 155 (listed, Progresso, Yucatdn); Fowler, Rep. N.J. Mus. (1905), 1906: 76 



(listed, New Jersey by ref. to Garman, 1885); Rep. N. J. Mus. (1906), 1907: 261 (name only), pi. 78 



(ill. with two tail spines, no local.); Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 62, 1910: 473 (listed, Florida, Cuba); 



Rosen, Acta Univ. lund., N. S., Afd. 2, 7 (5) (Fysiog. Siillsk. Handl., N. S. 22 [5]), 191 1: 47 (nos. 



young, size, Andros I., Bahamas); Engelhardt, Abh. bayer. Akad. Wiss., Suppl. ^ (3), 1913: 103 (range); 



Gudger, J. Elisha Mitchell sci. Soc, 28, 1913: 160 (listed, C. Lookout, N.Carolina); Coles, Proc. 



biol. Soc. Wash., 28, 191 5 '• 93 (listed, C. Lookout, N.Carolina, same specimen as Gudger, 1913); 



Mowbray, Bull. N.Y. zool. Soc, 26, 1923: 93 (young born in New York Aquarium, from Florida); 



Fowler, Monogr. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 6, 1944: 433, 456 (listed, Bahamas; Jamaica); Notul. Nat. 



Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 181, 1946: i (color, Nassau, Bahamas). 

 Urolophus jamaicensis (in part) Schreiner and Ribeiro, Arch. Mus. nac. Rio de J., 12, 1903: 81 (W. Indies 



by earlier refs., but S. Pedro, California specimen doubtless U. halleri). 

 Urobatis sloani^'^^ Garman, Mem. Harv. Mus. comp. Zool., j6, 1913: 402, pi. 28, pi. 53, fig. 3, pi. 69, figs. 



4-5 (descr., ills., color, skel., Haiti); Radcliffe, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish., 24i 1916: 276 (descr., teeth, 



denticles, after Garman, 191 3, C. Lookout, N.Carolina, by ref. to Coles, 191 5); Fowler, Proc. biol. 



Soc. Wash., j6, 1923: 28 (listed, Miami, Florida); Beebe and Tee-Van, Zoologica N.Y., 10, 1928: 



30 (descr., meas., size, ill., habits, stom. contents, capture, nos., Haiti); Fowler, Proc Acad. nat. Sci. 



Philad., 80, 1928: 456 (listed, Haiti); Breder, Field Bk. Mar. Fish. Atlant. Coast, 1929: 34 (genl.); 



Jordan, Manual Vert. Anim. NE U. S., 1929: 18 (diagn.); Jordan, Evermann and Clark, Rep. U. S. 



Comm. Fish. (1928), 2, 1930: 29 (listed, W. Indies northward, doubtfully New Jersey); Hildebrand, 



Copeia, 1941: 222 (listed, C. Lookout, N.Carolina); Longley and Hildebrand, Carneg. Inst., Pap. 



Tortugas Lab., j^, 1941: 4 (size, Tortugas, Florida). 

 Urobatis vermiculaius (var. nov.) Garman, Mem. Harv. Mus. comp. Zool., j6, 1913: 402, pi. 29 (color, ill., 



Progresso, Yucatdn). 

 Urobatis jamaicensis Fowler, Proc. biol. Soc. Wash., JJ, 1920: 146 (New Jersey by ref. to Garman, 1885, 



but probably erroneous); Borodin, Bull. Vanderbilt Oceanogr. (Mar.) Mus., I (4), 1934: 107 (listed, 



Jamaica); Fowler, Monogr. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 7, 1945: 265 (size, Florida). 

 Urotrygon jamaicensis Breder, Bull. Bingham oceanogr. Coll., I (i), 1927: 6 (listed, no local.). 

 Urobatis vermiculatus Jordan, Evermann and Clark, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (1928), 2, 1930: 29 (listed, Pro- 

 gresso, Yucatin). 



Doubtful Synonym: 



Leiobatus sloani Blainville, Bull. Soc. philom. Paris, 18 16: 121 (name only, ref. perhaps to Pastinaca marina, 

 ferruginea, tuberculata, Sloane [Hist. Jamaica, 2, 1725: pi. 246, fig. i]; see p. 427, footnote no). 



Genus Urotrygon Gill 1863 



Urotrygon Gill, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 1863: 173; type species, U.mundus GiU. West coast of Central 

 America. 



Generic Synonyms: 



Urolophus Giinther, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1871: 653, for U.chilensis Gunther, Chile; Jordan and Gilbert, 



Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., I, 1882: 306, 307, for U . aspidurus Jordan and Gilbert, Panama Bay; Proc. 



U. S. nat. Mus., 5, 1883: 579, for U.asterias Jordan and Gilbert, Mazatlan, Mexico, and Panama; 



Jordan and BoUman, Proc U.S. nat. Mus., 12, 1890: 151, for U.goodei Jordan and BoUmann, off 



Panama. 



Generic Characters. Tail from center of cloaca a little longer than from center of 

 cloaca to tip of snout. Caudal fin not more than '/j as broad as long. Characters other- 

 wise as in Urolophus. 



no. The specific name sloani was first used by Blainville (Bull. Soc. philom. Paris, 18 16: 121), but without any 

 description or indication as to whether or not it referred to the Pastinaca marina, ferruginea, of Sloane, 1725, as 



