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Truitt, Bean and Fowler, Bull. Md. Conserv. Dept., 3, 1929: 31 (descr., Chesapeake Bay)**; Breder, 



Copeia, 1932: 31-32 (nos., season, Block Island); Fowler, Bull. Amer. Mas. nat. Hist., yo (i), 1936: 



126 (descr.. New Jersey); Breder, Bull. N.Y. zool. Soc, 41, 1938: 28 (listed, New York Harbor); 



Gudger, Sci. Mon. N.Y., [6j], Aug. 1946: 113 (ill.). 

 Dasibatis centrura Garman, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., 16, 1883: 67 (descr., color, cf. European D.pastinaca, 



size, range). 

 Dasyatis {Hemilrygon) centrura Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. nat. Mus., 47 (i), 1896: 83 (descr., size, 



Maine to C. Hatteras); Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1895), 1896: 223 (listed, Maine to C. Hatteras). 

 Dasybatus centroura Fowler, Rep. N.J. Mus. (1905), 1906: 76 (diagn., nos., size, New Jersey); Rep. N.J. 



Mus. (1906), 1907: 261 (size, capture, New Jersey); Bigelow and Schroeder, Canad. Atlant. Fauna, 



126, 1934: 37 (descr., ill., C. Cod and Georges Bank to C. Hatteras). 

 Dasyatis hastata Tracy, Rep. R. I. Comm. inl. Fish., 1906: 48 (Rhode Island by ref. to DeKay, 1842); Ken- 

 dall, Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 7 (8), 1908: 14 (New England locals.); Tracy, Rep. R. I. Comm. 



inl. Fish., 1910: 63 (Rhode Island and Mass., by ref. to DeKay, 1842). 

 Dasyatis hastata Sumner, Osburn and Cole, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., JJ (2), 1913: 739 (Woods Hole, by ref. 



to Storer, 1867). 

 Dasybatus (Pastinachus) marinus^^^ Garman, Mem. Harv. Mus. comp. Zool., j6, 1913: 382, pi. 33, figs, i, 



2, 4; pi. 44, fig. 7; pi- 53, fig- 5 (descr., ills., but not European refs.). 

 Dasybatus marinus Radcliife, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 34, 1916: 273 (in Key); Bigelow and Welsh, Bull. U. S. 



Bur. Fish., 40 (i), 1925: 70 (descr., ill., size, C. Cod, south. Mass., Georges Bank); Wilson, Bull. U. S. 



nat. Mus., 1^8, 1932: 457, 472, 521 (copepod parasites. Woods Hole); Merriman and Warfel, Bull. 



Bingham oceanogr. Coll., II (4), 1948: 135 (listed, off Rhode Island, Connecticut). 

 Dasybatus hastatus Bigelow and Welsh, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 40(1), 1925: 70 (C. Cod, by ref. to Storer, 1867). 

 Pastinachus cenlrourus Jordan, Evermann and Clark, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (1928), 2, 1930: 28 (listed, 



Maine to C. Hatteras); Sproston, Trans, zool. Soc. Lond., 2^ (4), 1946: 533 (trematode parasites. Woods 



Hole, Mass., but ref. for Labrador doubtless erroneous). 



Doubtful Synonyms and References: 



Trygon centrura Uhler and Lugger, Rep. Comm. Fish. Md., ist ed., 1876: 187; 2nd ed., 1876: 158 (listed, 

 entrance to Chesapeake Bay). 



Dasyatis centrurus True, List V^ert. Anim. S. Carolina, in Handb. S. Carolina, 1883: 260 (listed, S. Carolina); 

 Moore, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 12, 1894: 358 (probably not this species because female, only two feet 

 wide, with young; New Jersey); Henshall, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm., 14, 1895: 210 (listed, Florida, 

 ident. doubtful because of local.); Evermann and Kendall, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (1899), 1900: 49 

 (listed, Florida, by ref. to Henshall, 1895); Fowler, Monogr. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 7, 1945: 161, 

 264 (listed, S. Carolina, Florida). 



Dasibatis marina Devincenzi, Rev. chil. Hist, nat., 29, 1925: 174, pi. 4, fig. l-l" (ill., Uruguay). 



Dasybatis marina Devincenzi, An. Mus. Hist. nat. Montevideo, (2) 2, 1926: 204 (descr., meas. of same spe- 

 cimen as in Devincenzi, 1925, Rio de la Plata, near mouth of R. Uruguay); Devincenzi and Barattini, 

 An. Mus. Hist. nat. Montevideo, Suppl. Album Ictiol., 1926: pi. 5, fig. 4 (ill., Uruguay); Pozzi and 

 Bordale, An. Soc. cient. argent., 120, 1935: 154 (listed, Argentina, Lat. 3 5° S).!"! 



Not Trygon centrura Yarrow, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., [29], 1877: 216 (N.Carolina; probably Dasyatis 

 say, because of local, and nos., see p. 387). 



Not Dasyatis centroura Fowler, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 61, 1909: 407 (Delaware Bay, later refd. by 

 Fowler [Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 62, 1910: 473] to Dasyatis say, but subsequently by Fowler [Proc. 

 biol. Soc. Wash., 33, 1920: 146J to Dasyatis hastatus, which is equivalent to Dasyatis americana); Dels- 

 man, Mem. Mus. Hist. nat. Belg., (2) 3 Fasc. 21, 1941: 49 (listed, tropical W. Afr., ident. doubtful). 



99. Probably by ref. to Uhler and Lugger, 1876. 



100. The earliest post-Linnean use of the species name marinus for a Sting Ray appears to have been by Klein in the 

 anonymous Neuer Schauplatz, j, 1775: 992. But Klein's names have been declared invalid by the International 

 Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (Opin. 89, Smithson. misc. Coll., 7J [5], 1925: 28); hence marinus, 

 as used in the present connection, must date from Garman, 1913, who revived it to include both the American 

 D. centroura and the European D. aspera (Cuvier) 1817, to which D. thatassia (Muller and Henle) 1S41 is no doubt 

 equivalent. 



loi. See discussion, p. 360. 



