514 Memoir Sears Foundation for Marine Research 



fig. 3 (based on obviously inaccurate drawing, as likely to be Mobula as Manta\ mid-Atlantic, Lat. 38°58' 



N, Long. 42° 10' [W] from meridian of Paris). 

 Caphaloplera giorna Anon., R. Coll. Surg., Descr. 111. Cat. Mus., 2, 1834: 38; 3, 1836: 148 (anat.; doubtful 



whether Mobula or Manta). 

 Cephaloptera manta Anon., R. Coll. Surg., Descr. 111. Cat. Mus., 2, 1834: 84; 4, 1838: 51 (anat., doubtful 



whether Mobula or Manta). 

 Probably not Brachioptilon hamiltoni Newman, Zoologist, 7, 1849: 2358 (Gulf of California). 

 Probably not Ceratoptera ehrenbergii Miiller and Henle, Plagiost., 1841: 187 (Red Sea).'/ 

 Not Raja giorna Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 4° ed., in Buffon, Hist. Nat., 5, 1 802-1 803: 662, 666, pi. 20, 



fig. 3; equals Rata mobular Bonnaterre 1788. 

 Not Raja manatia Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol., 1801: 364, which was a Mobula; see p. 497. 

 Not Rata cornuta Lesueur, J. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 4, 1824: 120 (Azores; included in synonymy oi Manta 



birostris by Whitley [Aust. ZooL, 8, 1936: 179] but based on Raie cornue, Lacepede [Hist. Nat. Poiss., 



4° ed., in Buffon, Hist. Nat., i, 1798: 151, footnote]; equals Mobula mobular [Bonnaterre] 1788). 



