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the pelvic arch, three larger, elongated tubercles the points of which 

 extend backward above the middle of the shoulder girdle." 



U.S.N.M. No. &4125. Honolulu. O. P. Jenkins. Length, 1,032 mm. Type of 

 Dasyatis sclera. 



DASYATIS SEPHEN (ForskSl) 



Raja sephen Forskal, Descript. Animal., pp. "VIII, 17, 1775 (type locality: 

 Djedda, Lohaja, Red Sea).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Linn., vol. 1, p. 1508, 1789 

 (Red Sea). — Walbaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, p. 533, 1792 (copied).— 

 LacepIidb, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 1, p. 122, 1798 (Red Sea). — Schneideh, Syst. 

 Ichth. Bloch, p. 360, 1801 (Red Sea).— Shaw, General zoology, vol. 5, 

 p. 288, 1804. 



Rata sephen Bonnateebe, Tableau Encylop. Ichth., p. 4, 1788 (Red Sea). — 

 CtrviEB, R^gne animal, vol. 2, p. 137, 1817 (reference). 



Trygonohatus sephen Blainvilxe, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, vol. 8, p. 112, 1816 

 (name only). 



Trigon (Pastinachus) sephen RiJppELL, Atlas Reise Nordl. Afrika, E^sche, p. 52, 

 1828. 



Trigon sephen Rxjppeix, Neue Wirbelth. Fische, p. 69, 1835 (reference). 



Trygon sephen GiJNTHEE, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 482, 1870 (Indian 

 Ocean, East Indies, Pinang, Seychelles). — Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, 

 No. 5, p. 41, 1874 (Port Mackey). — Petebs, Mouatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 

 p. 853, 1876 (New Britain).— Dat, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 740, pi. 195, 

 fig. 2, 1878.— Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 8, p. 212, 

 1883 (Lower Burdekin River) ; vol. 9, p. 64, 1884 (Lower Burdekin River 

 in salt water). — Oqilbt, Cat. Fish. Australian Mus., pt. 1, p. 20, 1888 

 (Burdekin River; South East New Guinea). — Day, Fauna British India, 

 Fishes, vol. 1, p. 50, figs. 21-22, 1889.— Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, 

 Poiss., p. 510, 1891.— BoTJLENGEE, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1892, p. 136 

 (Muscat). — WEBEai, Zool. Ergebn. Reise Niederliind. Ost.-Indien, p, 458, 

 1894 (Java, in fresh water). — Duncker, Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, 

 VOL 21, p. 194, 1904 (Kuala Lumpur).— Volz, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland. 

 Indie, vol. 66, p. 240, 1907 (Palembang). — Annaicdale, Mem. Indian Mus., 

 vol. 2, p. 35, 1909 (off Burma). — Gunthee, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, pt. 17, 

 p. 384, 1910 (New Pomerania ; Pelew Islands). — Pearson, Ceylon Administr. 

 Rep., 1912-13, p. E13.— Southwell, Ceylon Administr. Rep., 1912-13, 

 pp. E41, E42, E45, E48, E50.— Webeb, Siboga Exped., Fische, vol. 57, p. 604, 

 1913 (Aru Islands). — Zugmayer, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., math-phys. Kl., 

 vol. 26, p. 8, 1913 (Mekran and Oman). — Bambeb, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, 

 vol. 31, Zool., p. 478, 1915 (Sudanese Red Sea). — Pearson, Ceylon Admin- 

 istr. Rep., 1915-18, p. F12. — Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 5, p. 87, 

 1916 (Moreton Bay and Lower Burdekin River). — Pillay, Journ. Bombay 

 Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 33, p. 353, 1929 (Travancore).— Tibant, Service 

 Oc^anogr. Peches Indo-Chine, 6® Note, p. 77, 1929 (Cochinchina). 



Trygon (Hypolophus) sephen Klunzingeb, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 

 p. 680, 1871 (Red Sea). 



Hypolophus sephen Mulleb and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 170, 1841 

 (India; Red Sea). — Cantob, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, pt. 2, 

 p. 429, 1849 (Sea of Pinang, Malay Peninsula, Singapore). — Bleekeb, Verb. 

 Batav. Genootsch. (Madura), vol. 22, p. 6, 1849 (Kammal).— Geay, List 

 Fish British Museum., p. 123, 1851 (India). — Bleekeb, Verb. Batav. 

 Genootsch. (Plagiost.), vol. 24, p. 77, 1852 (Batavia, Samarang, Gresik, 

 Surabaja, Kammal, Surakarta) ; (Bengal), vol. 25, p. 9, 1853 [on Wolga 



