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Suborder MASTICURA. Whip-tailed rays 



Family 27. DASYATID^ffi. Stingrays 



Genus 61. PASTINACHUS Ruppell. 



Pasiinachus Ruppell, Atlas, Reise Nord Africa, 1828, 82 {Rata sephen 



ForskS,l) ; tail rounded above, with a keel below. 

 Hypolophtis Miiller and Henle, Plagiostomen, 1838, 170 {Raia sephen 



Forsk&l). 



138. Pastinachus centrourus (Mitchill). Stingaree; Stingray; Devilfish; 



Pigeon stingray; Clam-cracker. 

 Coast of Maine to Cape Hatteras, abundant; the same or a related 



species in the Mediterranean. 

 Raja centroura Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 1815, 479, 



New York. 



139. Pastinachus schmardae (Werner). 



West Indies. 



Dasyatis schmardx Werner, Zool. Jahrb., XXI, 1904, 298, Jamaica. 



140. Pastinachus torrei (Carman). Sabina; Lebisa. 



West Indies. 



Dasyatis torrei Garman, Plagiostomia, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 XXXVI, 1913, 386, Tunas de Zaza, Cuba. 



Genus 62. DASYATIS Rafinesque. Stingrays 



Dasybatits Klein, Neuer Schauplatz, I, 1775, 191; not binomial. 



Dasyatis Rafinesque, Caratteri, 1810, 16 {Dasyatis mjo Rafinesque = i2a/o 

 pastinaca L.) . 



Uroxis Rafinesque, Indice, 1810, 61 (17. vjo Rafinesque). 



Trigonobatus Blainville, Jour. Phys., 1816, 261 {T. vulgaris Blainville = 

 Pastinaca L.). 



Trygon Adanson, in Cuvier, Regno Anim., ed. I, 1817, 135 (Raja pasti- 

 naca L.). 



Pastinaca Swainson, Class. Anim., 1839, 319 (Pastinaca olivacea 

 Swainson). 



Pastinaca DeKay, N. Y. Fauna: Fishes, 1842, 372 {Raja pastinaca L.). 



Dasibatis Garman, corrected spelling. 



141. Dasyatis longus (Garman). 



Gulf of California to Panama: Galapagos. 



Trygon longa Garman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., VI, 1880, 170, Acapulco, 

 Mexico. 



142. Dasyatis hastatus (DeKay). Whip stingray; Kit; Stingaree. 



West Indies to Brazil, north to Florida, North Carolina and Rhode 



Island. 

 Pastinaca hastata DeKay, N. Y. Fauna: Fishes, 1842, 373, pi. 65, fig. 



214, Rhode Island. 



143. Dasyatis guttatus (Schneider). 



Surinam to Brazil; recorded from Granada. 



Raia guttata Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 361, no locality given. 



TrT/gon gymnura J. Miiller, in Erdmann's Reise um die Erde, 1830, 



25, taf. 13, Brazil. 

 Raja tuberculata Lacdpfede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., II, 1800, 106, pi. 4, 



fig. 1, Cayenne; not of Bonnaterre. 



Genus 63. AMPHOTISTIUS Garman. 



Amphotistius Garman, Plagiostomia, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1913, 

 375 {Trygon sinensis Steindachner); tail with a distinct fold above 

 and below. 



144. Amphotistius say (LeSueur). Southern stingray. 



New Jersey to Brazil, common in Florida; occasionally northward to 



New York. 

 Raja say LeSueur, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I, 1817, 42, New Jersey. 



