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Raja, manatia Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Blocli, p. 364, 1801 (type locality: 

 Tropical America). 



CephalopterMS vampyrus Mitohill, Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York, vol. 1, 

 p. 23, pi. 2, fig. 1, 1824 (type locality: Near entrance to Delaware Bay). 



Cephaloptera giorna (not Lacepede) LeSueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, vol. 4, p. 115, pi. 6, 1824 (type locality: Georgia). 



Rata cornuta LeSueub, op. cit, p. 120 (on Catesby). 



Cephalopterus mania Banceoft, Zool. Journ., vol. 4, p. 453, 1828-29 (type 

 locality: Jamaica). 



Mania americana americana Bancroft, op. cit., p. 454 (type locality: 

 Jamaica). 



Ceratoptera lesueurii Swainson, Nat. Hist. Animals, vol. 2, p. 320, fig. 100, 

 1839 (on LeSueur 1824). 



Ceratoptera johnii MIjixer and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiost. p. 186, pi. 49, 

 1841 (type locality: Jamaica). 



Ceratoptera ehreniergii Mullee and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 

 187, 1841 (type locality: Red Sea).— Gray, List Fish Brit. Mus., p. 134, 

 1851 (reference).— DuMEEiL, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 661, 1865 

 (compiled). — Gitnthee, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 498, 1870 (com- 

 piled). — Klunzingee, Vehr. zool. hot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, p. 687, 1871 (Red 

 Sea). — Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 745 (not woodcut), 1878. — Baetlett, 

 Sarawak Gazette, vol. 26, No. 366, p. 134, 1896 (Moratabas).— Dunckeb, 

 Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 21 (1903), p. 194, 1904 (Jeram). 



Mania ehrenhergii Gaeman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 455, 1913 

 (compiled). — Whitley, Australian Zool., vol. 8, pt. 3, p. 183, 1936 (com- 

 piled). — Fowler, List Fish. Malaya, p. 20, 1938 (reference). 



Mania ehreniergi Barnard, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 21, pt. 1, p. 87, 1925 

 (Table Bay, East London, Durban, Natal). 



Brachioptilon hamiltoni Newman, Zoologist, vol. 7, p. 74, 1849 (type locality: 

 Gulf of California, west coast of Mexico). 



Manta Jiamilioni Beebe, The Arcturus adventure, pp. 123, 134, 206, 304, 415, 

 figs. 30-35, 1926 (Galapagos).— Whitley, Australian Zool., vol. 8, pt. 3, 

 p. 180, 1936 (compiled). 



DiaiolicJithys elUoiii Holmes, Proc. Elliott Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, p. 39, 1856 

 (type locality: Charleston, S. C). 



Deratoptera alfredi Keefft, Illustrated Sydney News, vol. 5, pp. 3, 9, wood- 

 cut fig., 1868 (type locality: Port Jackson, New South Wales). 



Ceratoptera alfredi Macleay, Proc, Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 6, p. 

 381, 1881 (Manly Beach). — Ogilby, Cat. Fishes Australian Mus., pt. 1, p. 

 23, 1888 (type; Port Jackson). 



Mania alfredi Stead, Fishes of Australia, p. 233, 1908 (Port Jackson). — 

 McCuixocH, Fishes of New South Wales, ed. 2, p. 13, pi. 3, fig. 43a, 1927 

 (photograph). — Fowlee, Proc. 4th (1929) Pac. Sci. Congr., Java, p. 508, 

 1930 (reference). 



Daemomanta alfredi Whitley, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 18, No. 6, p. 328, pi. 

 37, figs. 1-4, 1932 (compiled records and notes) ; Australian Zoologist, 

 vol. 8, pt. 3, p. 167, pi. 12, test figs. 1-3, 1936 (Maher Island, Queensland). 



Cephaloptera stelligera (Ehrenberg) Gijnthee, Cat. Fishes British Museum, 

 vol. 8, p. 498, 1870 (name in synonymy). — Hilgendoef, Symbol. Physic. 

 Hemprich-Ehrenberg, pi. 2, figs. 1-9, 1899 (type locality: Red Sea). 



Manta ray a Baee, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 5, p. 112, 1899 (type lo- 

 cality: Zorritos, Peru). 



