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reported from so many localities along the west coast of Florida, from Pensacola to the 

 southern extremity of the peninsula, and northward along the east coast to the Indian 

 and St. Johns rivers as to prove it universal there in shoal water. It is known also 

 that it swims up rivers far beyond the head of tide, proof of which is found in the 

 capture of one in the Mississippi River more than 200 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, 

 while it is present in Lakes Ponchartrain and Borgne, Louisiana, and occurs in some 

 numbers in the lakes of the St. Johns River, Florida. 



Doubtless it occurs to the northward in suitable situations along the coasts of 

 Georgia and South Carolina,^^^ for it is the most plentiful of Sting Rays that visit the 

 Beaufort region in North Carolina during the warm months. It ranges as far as Chesa- 

 peake Bay, where several specimens were taken in 1921 and 1922. But so far as is 

 known this is the extreme limit of its northward dispersal. The southern limit of its 

 normal range remains to be established, for while D. sabina has been credited to Grenada, 

 Dutch Guiana (Surinam) and Brazil, it has been pointed out^-* recently that these reports 

 may have referred to D. guttata (p. '},(i'^^. 



Synonyms and References: 



Trygon sabina Lesueur, J. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 4, 1824: 109 (descr., color, Florida); Miiller and Henle, 

 Plagiost., 1 841 : 163 (in part, New Orleans, but descr. of Brazil and Surinam [Dutch Guiana] specimens 

 perhaps (ox guttata Bloch and Schneider 1801); Storer, Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci., N. S. 2, 1846: 

 543 (descr., Florida by ref to Lesueur, 1824); Goode, Proc. U. S. nat. Mus., 2, 1879: 156 (size, Pensa- 

 cola, Florida); Goode and Bean, Proc. U. S. nat. Mus., 2, 1879: 120 (St. Johns River and Pensacola, 

 Florida; Galveston, Texas; female with young); Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. nat. Mus., 5, 1883 

 245 (listed, Galveston, Texas; Lakes Pontchartrain and Borgne, Louisiana; Pensacola, Florida); Bean 

 Bull. U. S. nat. Mus., 27, 1884: 494 (Lake Monroe, Florida); Jordan, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (1885) 

 1887: 800 (listed, S. Atlant. and Gulf States, U. S.); Lonnberg, Oefvers. Svensk. Vet. Akad. Forh., 51., 

 1894: 112 (listed, St. Johns R. and lakes, Florida); Engelhardt, Abh. bayer. Akad. Wiss., Suppl. 4 (3) 

 1913: 103 (range). 



Pastinaca sabina DeKay, Zool. N. Y., 4, 1842: 375 (listed, Florida by ref to Lesueur, 1824). 



Trygon (Trygon) sabina Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Poiss., I, 1865: 607 (descr., color, New Orleans). 



Trygon tuberculata (in part) Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 8, 1870: 480 {sabina Lesueur included as syno- 

 nym). 



Dasybatis sabina Goode and Bean, Proc. U. S. nat. Mus., 2, 1880: 344 (Usted, W. Florida); Evermann and 

 Kendall, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 12, 1894: 95 (listed, Galveston, Texas). 



Dasibatis sabina Garman, Bull. U. S. nat. Mus., 16, 1883: 68 (descr.. Gulf of Florida, and Lake Monroe). 



Dasyatis sabina Jordan and Gilbert, Bull. U. S. nat. Mus., 16, 1883: 49 (descr.); True, List V^ert. Anim. 

 S.Carolina, in Handb. S.Carolina, 1883: 160 (listed, S.Carolina); Henshall, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 

 14, 1895: 210 (W. Florida); Evermann and Bean, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (1896), 1898: 239 (listed, 

 Indian R., Florida); Evermann and Kendall, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (1899), 1900: 49 (Florida locals.); 

 Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. nat. Mus., 47 (4), 1900: pi. 14, fig. 36 (ill.); Fowler, Proc. Acad, 

 nat. Sci. Philad., 62, 1910: 474 (Florida); RadcHffe, Science, N. S. 38, 1913: 396 (listed, Beaufort, 

 N.Carolina); Fowler, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 72, 1921: 394 (Florida); Proc. biol. Soc. Wash. 

 j6, 1923: 28 (Florida); Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., y8, 1926: 249 (size, Florida); Hildebrand and 

 Schroeder, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., .^j (i), 1928: 67 (descr., color, size, season, Chesapeake Bay); Breder, 

 Field Bk. Mar. Fish, .^tlant. Coast, 1929: 35 (genl.); Gudger, Sci. Mon. N. Y., 34, 1932: 407 (ref. 

 to Fowler, 1926); Gunter, La. Conserv. Rev., 5 (4), 1936: 23, 4; (nos., Louisiana and Gulf of Mexico); 

 Smith, Biol. Rev. (Cambridge), 11, 1936: 65 (in fresh water); Gunter, Ecol. Monogr., 8, 1938: 319, 

 342 (nos., breeding season, Louisiana and Gulf of Mexico); Copeia, 1938: 69 (fresh water, Mississippi 



123. Not yet recorded in print. 124. By Boeseman, Zool. Meded., .70 (2), 1948: 33-37. 



