FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 471 



AetoMtes Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, p. 198, 1846. (Type, Raja narinari 



Euphrasen. ) 

 Aetobatijs DvutsiL, Mem. Acad. Sci. France, vol. 27, p. 145, 1856. (Type, Raja 



narinari Euphrasen.) 

 Stoasodon Cantor, Journ. Asiatic See. Bengal, vol. 18, p. 1416, 1849. (Type, 



Raja narinari Euphrasen, monotypic.) 

 GonioMtis Agassiz, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 6, p. 385, 1859. (Type, 



Raja flagellum Schneider, monotypic.) 



Tail long, slender, with serrated basal spine. Head prominent, 

 narrowing downward and forward on sides. Snout narrower, pro- 

 duced. Teeth in single row in each jaw, fused, lower pavement pro- 

 duced. Front nasal valves confluent ; median notch in pectoral flap. 

 Dorsal fin on tail basally before serrated spine. Pectorals slightly 

 falciform, not continuous forward to snout. Rostral fins separated 

 from pectorals and at lower level on side of head. Ventrals narrow, 

 elongate. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a*. Snout long, tapering, acute; uniform or spotted with whitish narinari 



a\ Snout short, tapering, blunt; marked with thickly set small dark bordered 

 spots ocellatus 



AETOBATUS NARINARI (Euphrasen) 



Rata narinai'i Euphrasen, Kon. Vet. Acad. Nya Handl. Stockholm, vol. 11, p. 

 217, pi. 10, 1790 (type locality: St. Bartholomieu, West Indies) (on Narinari 

 Irasiliensihus Marcgrave, Hist. Nat. Brasil., p. 175, fig., 1648, Brazil). 



Raja narinari Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 361, 1801 (Tahiti). 



Myliobatis narinari Bennett, Life of Raffles, p. 694, 1830 (Sumatra). 



Aetobatis narinari MtJixEs and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 179, 1841 

 (India, Red Sea; Brazil; Surinam). — Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Ge- 

 nootsch. (Madura), vol. 22, p. G, 1849 (Kammal).— Gray, List fish British 

 Museum, p. 130, 1851 (Sumatra). — Bleeicer, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Plagi- 

 ost.), vol. 24, p. 87, 1852 (Batavia, Samarang, Surabaja, Kammal) ; (Ben- 

 gal), vol. 25, p. 9 (on Eel tenkee Russell), p. 82, 1853 (reference) ; Nat. 

 Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, vol. 11, p. 95, 1856 (Banda) ; Act. Soc. Sci. 

 Ind.-N^erl., vol. 1, No. 3, p. 10, 1856 (Macassar). — Guichenot, Notes lie 

 Reunion, vol. 2, p. 32, 1863. — Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr, Dierk., vol. 

 1, p. 240, 1863 (Obi Island).— Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 641, 

 1865 (Brazil, Red Sea, India).— Day, Fishes of Malabar, p. 280, 1865.— 

 GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 8, p. 492, 1870 (Pinang, India, Sey- 

 chelles, Sumatra). — Klunzinger, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, p. 686, 

 1871 (Red Sea).— Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 5, p. 41, 1874 (Bowen, 

 South Sea).— Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1875, p. 447, 1876 (Mau- 

 ritius, Seychelles).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 743, pi. 194, fig. 4, 1878. — 

 Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 7, p. 64, 1879 (South Seas).— Macleay, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 5, pt. 2, p. 317, 1880 (Cape York) ; 

 vol. 6, p. 381, 1881 (Cape York ) .— Ogilby, Pi-oc. Linn. Soc. New South 

 Wales, vol. 10, p. 466, 1885 (Cape Hawke, New South Wales) ; Cat. Fish. 

 Australian Mus., pt. 1, p. 22, 1888 (Cape Hawke; Madras). — Dat, Fauna 

 British India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 59, fig. 24, 1889. — Boulengek, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. London, 1889, p. 244 (Muscat). — Bartletit, Sarawak Gazette, vol. 26, 

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