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Generic Synonyms: 



Raja (in part) Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., J, 1758: 232; for R.fastinaca Linnaeus. Europe. 



Uroxis Rafinesque, Indice Ittiol. Sicil., 18 10: 48; type species, Dasyatis ujo Rafinesque, Sicily, equivalent to 

 Raja pastinaca Linnaeus 1758. 



Trygonoiattts (in part) Blainville, Bull. Soc. philom. Paris, 1816: 112; includes Raja sephen Forskal 1775. Red 

 Sea.32 



Trygon Cuvier, Regne Anim., 2, 181 7: 136; type species, Raja pastinaca Linnaeus 1758, designated by Jordan 

 (Genera Fish., i, 1917: 98). 



Trygonoialis Blainville, in Vieillot, Faune Fran^., Poiss., 1825: 35; type and only described species. Raja pa- 

 stinaca Linneaeus 1758. East Atlantic. 



Pastinachus Riippell, Atlas Reise nordl. Afr., 2, Fische Rothen Meeres, 1828: 51, footnote; type species, Raja 

 sephen Forskal 1775, Red Sea, designated by Jordan (Genera Fish., I, 1917: 122).^' 



Trigon (in part) Riippell, Atlas Reise nordl. Afr., Fische Rothen Meeres, Abt. i, 1828: 51; includes Raja sephen 

 Forskal 1775. 



Hypolophus (subgenus) Miiller and Henle, Arch. Naturg., I, 1837: 400; no species named; but Raja sephen 

 Forskal 1775 included as example by Bonaparte (Nuov. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bologna, 2, 1838: 202, and Mem. 

 Soc. Neuchatel Sci. Nat., 2 [7], 1839: 6) and designated as type species by Jordan (Genera Fish., 2, 

 1919: 193). 



Pastinaca Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish. Amphib. Rept., 2, 1838: 192, 319; type species, P. olivacea Swainson, 

 equals Raja pastinaca Linnaeus 1758. 



Hemitrygon (subgenus) Miiller and Henle, Charlesworth Mag. Nat. Hist., 2, 1838: 90; no species mentioned; 

 type species, Trygon bennetti Miiller and Henle 1841, designated by Jordan (Genera Fish., 2, 1919: 190). 



Dasibatus L. Agassiz, Nom. Zool. Pise, 1845: 21; emended spelling for Dasybatus Klein 1775; ^ee p. 341, 

 footnote 34. 



Dasybatis Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. nat. Mus., J, 1880: 31 ; t)'pe species, D. dipterunis Jordan and Gil- 

 bert. San Diego, California. 



Dasybatus Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. LT. S. nat. Mus., 4, r88i: 35; for Dasybatis dipterunis Jordan and Gil- 

 bert 1880;'* Garman, Mem. Harv. Mus. comp. Zool., j6, 1913: 375; by ref to Dasybatus Klein 1775 

 and Walbaum 1792. 



Dasibatis Garman, Bull. U. S. nat. Mus., 16, 1883: 68; type species. Raja pastinaca Linnaeus 1758; alternative 

 spelling for Dasybatis Jordan and Gilbert 1880. 



Taeniura Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., 7, 1883: 598; for T. atra Macleay, equals Raja sephen Forskal 



1775- 

 Dasabatis Evermann and Kendall, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 12, 1894: 95; type species. Raja sa-^ Lesueur 1817; 



emended spelling for Dasibatis Garman 1883 or for Dasybatis Jordan and Gilbert 1880. 

 Pterop/atytr\gon (subgenus) Fowler, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 62, 1910: 474; type species, Trygon violacea 



Bonaparte 1832. 

 Amphotistius (subgroup) Garman, Mem. Harv. Mus. comp. Zool., j6, 1913'. 37;, 392; Upe species, Trygon 



sinensis Steindachner 1892, designated by Jordan, Evermann and Clark (Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. [1928J, 



2, 1930: 28). 



Heliobatis Marsh (Amer. J. Sci., [3] 14, 1877: 256) and Xipholrygon Cope (Amer. Nat., 13, 1879: 333). But while 

 the latter certainly (and the former probably) falls among the long-tailed Sting Rays, it is doubtful whether either 

 of them was actually congeneric with the modern Dasyatis. 



32. This is the only identifiable species among the nine that were included by Blainville in the subdivision of his genus 

 Pastinachus with a fold on the lower surface of the tail. Jordan's (Genera Fish., i, 191 7: 94) designation of Raja 

 pastinaca Linnaeus 1758 as the type cannot be accepted because this name was not included in Blainville 's list of 

 species for either subdivision of his Trygonobatus. 



33. The term "Pastinachae," applied by Nardo (Prod. Ittiol. Adriat., Giorn. Fisica Pavia, i, 1827: 8) to his "Sect. I" 

 of Raja and for which Jordan (Genera Fish., j, 1917: 121) designated a type species (Raja pastinaca Linnaeus 1758), 

 does not come into consideration as a generic name since it is not binomial. 



34. The name Dasybatus had been employed for Sting Rays previously by Klein (Neuer Schauplatz, 1775: 991) and 

 by Walbaum (P. Artedi Genera Pise. Emend. Ichthyol., j, 1792: 581). But the International Commission on 

 Zoological Nomenclature has ruled that neither Klein's generic names nor Walbaum's republication of them are 

 available. Dasybatus Blainville 1816 and Dasybatis Blainville 1825 (see Synonyms, p. 138) are equivalents of Raja 

 Linnaeus 1758 and not of Dasybatus Klein 1775. 



