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Myliobatis macroptera McClelland, Calcutta J. nat. Hist., j, 1841: 60, pi. 2, fig. i (descr. snout, ill., Bengal). 



Aetobatis narinari Miiller and Henle, Plagiost., 1841 : 179, 198 (descr., meas., color, Surinam [Dutch Guiana]); 

 Agassiz, Poiss. Foss., J, 1843: 326 (Brazil);** Gray, List Fish. Brit. Mus., i, 1851: 130 (refs., Indian 

 Ocean, Sumatra); Dumeril, Arch. Mus. Hist. nat. Paris, 70, 1861: 242, pi. 20, fig. i (ill. head, trop. 

 W. Afr.); Hist. Nat. Poiss., j, 1865: 641 (descr., color, size, Brazil, Indian seas. Red Sea); Giinther, 

 Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 8, 1870: 492 (descr., Jamaica, Bahia, but Rajajlagellum Bloch and Schneider 1801 

 also included among refs.); Goode, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., 5, 1876: 73, 76 (listed, Bermuda); Uhler 

 and Lugger, Rep. Comm. Fish. Md., ed. i, 1876: 184; ed. 2, 1876: 158 (listed, Chesapeake Bay); 

 Yarrow, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 29, 1877: 216 (size, nos., Beaufort, N. Carolina); Goode, Proc. 

 U.S. nat. Mus., 2, 1879: 120 (listed, E.Florida); Giinther, Guide to Study Fish., 1880: 345 (size, 

 color, range, iU.); Challenger Rep., I (6), 1880: 8 (listed, Bermuda); Poey, in Gundlach, An. Soc. esp. 

 Hist, nat., 10, 1881: 349 (listed, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, Brazil, E. Indies); Jordan and Gilbert, 

 Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., 16, 1883: 50 (descr., color, range); Stahl, Fauna Puerto Rico, 1883: 81, 167 

 (Puerto Rico; not seen); True, List Vert. Anim. S. Carolina, in Handb. S. Carolina, 1883: 160 (listed, 

 S. Carolina); Osorio, J. Sci. math. phys. nat. Lisboa, (2) 2 (5), 1890: 60 (listed, Benguela, Angola, W. 

 Afr.); J. Sci. math. phys. nat. Lisboa, (2) 5, 1898 : 201 (listed, Angola); Metzelaar, Trop. Atlant. Visschen, 

 1919: 200 (listed, Atlant.); Nigrelli, Amer. Mus. Novit., 996, 1938: 10 (cestode parasites); Gemeroy, 

 Zoologica N.Y., 28 (3), 1943: 113 (blood serum). 



Raja eJentula Lichtenstein, Descr. Anim. Observ. I. R. Forster, 1844: 227, 256 (substitution for narinari Miil- 

 ler and Henle 1841, listed, Tahiti, Tanna). 



La Mourine narinari, Cuvier and Duvernoy, Le9ons d'Anat. Comp., 8, 1846: 93 (descr. wall of oviduct). 



Stoasodon narinari Cantor, J. Asiat. Soc. Beng., 18, 1849: 1416 (descr., color, meas., Malay Peninsula); Jordan 

 and Gilbert, Bull. U. S. nat. Mus., 16, 1883: 879 {Stoasodon Cantor 1849 subst. for Aetobatis Miiller 

 and Henle 1841); Jordan, Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 9, 1886: 26 (listed, Beaufort, N.Carolina); Jenkins, 

 Johns Hopkins Univ. Stud. Biol, 4, 1887: 84 (listed, Beaufort, N.Carolina); Henshall, Bull. U.S. 

 Fish Comm., 9, 1891 : 384 (color, Lemon Bay, Florida); Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 14, 1895: 210 (size, 

 color, W. Florida); Smith, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (1895), 1896: 175 (listed, Biscayne Bay, Florida); 

 Jordan and Thompson, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 24, 1905: 232 (habits, Tortugas, Florida); Jordan, Ever- 

 mann and Clark, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (1928), 2, 1930: 30 (listed, Atlant. Coast U. S. to Virginia; 

 Pacif, Gulf of Calif, to Panama); Beebe and Tee- Van, Field Bk. Shore Fish. Bermuda, 1933: 30 (size, 

 ill., Bermuda); Gowanloch, Bull. La. Conserv. Dep., 1933: 237, 238 (descr. teeth, ill., Barataria Bay, 

 Louisiana); Gunter, Copeia, 1935: 39 (listed, Barataria Bay, Louisiana and Gulf of Mexico); Bere, 

 Amer. Midi. Nat., ly, 1936: 582 (copepod parasites. Lemon Bay, W. Florida); Gunter, Amer. Midi. 

 Nat., 26, 1941 : 196 (nos., Louisiana Coast); Amer. Midi. Nat., 28, 1942: 318 (listed, fresh water, Siam). 



Goniobatis mekagris Agassiz, Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 6, 1859: 385 (descr.. Sandwich [Hawaiian] Islands). 



Aetobatis latirostris Dumeril, Arch. Mus. Hist. nat. Paris, 10, 1861: 242, pi. 20, fig. i (descr., ill., Gaboon, 

 W.Africa); Hist. Nat. Poiss., J, 1865: 643 (descr., Gaboon, W.Africa); Rochebrune, Act. Soc. linn. 

 Bordeaux, (4) 6, 1882: 56; Faune Senegambie, i, Poiss., 1883-1885: 33 (listed, Senegal); Ehrenbaum, 

 Fischerbote, 6, 1914: 407 (Cameroon; not seen); Kiistenfische Westafrika, 191 5: 74 (ill., W.Africa; 

 not seen); Metzelaar, Trop. Atlant. Visschen, 1919: 200 (Senegal by ref. to Rochebrune, 1882, Came- 

 roon by ref. to Ehrenbaum, 1914); Monod, Faune Colon, Franc, 1927: 650 (W.Africa; not seen). 



Aetobatis laticeps GiU, Ann. New York Lye, 8, 1865: 137 (descr., teeth, color, W. Coast Amer.). 



Stoasodon laticeps Jordan and Gilbert, Bull. U. S. nat. Mus., 16, 1883: 879 (listed, W. Coast Mexico). 



Aetobates narinari Sauvage, in Grandidier, Hist. Phys. Nat. Madagascar, 16, Poiss., 1891 : 510 (listed, Mada- 

 gascar). 



Eagle Ray, Mitchell-Hedges, Battles with monsters of the sea, 1937: 224-225 (photos, female 7 ft. 5 in. wide 

 and young, off Honduras). 



Aetobatus punctatus Whitley, Fish. Aust., i, 1940: 221, 224, 225, figs. 251, 257 (descr., teeth, ill., Australia). 



Probable Synonyms: 



Aetobatis guttatus Annandale, Mem. Indian Mus., 2, 1909: 56 (ident. doubtful because of color pattern, Bay 



of Bengal). 

 Aetobatus ocellatus Garman, Mem. Harv. Mus. comp. ZooL, j6, 191 3 •• 442 (no diff. from narinari suggested 



by brief descr., specimen apparently not extant; Indian Ocean). 



98. The upper and lower teeth are reversed in the explanation of the illustrations. 



