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145. Amphotistius sabinus (LeSueur). 



Streams and estuaries of Florida; abundant on both coasts. 



Trygon sabina LeSueur, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., IV, 1824, 109, 



Florida. 

 Trygon osteosticta Miiller, in Erdmann's Reise um die Erde, 1830, 25, 



pi. 14, Brazil. 



146. Amphotistius dipterurus (JordSn and Gilbert). 



Bay of San Diego and southward; locally abundant. 



Dasyhatis dipterurus Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ill, 



1880, 31, San Diego; identified bj- Garman with Dasyatis brevis 



Garman, from Peru. 



Genus 64. PTEEOPLATEA Muller and Henle. 



Ptcroplatea jMiiller and Henle, Plagioetomen, 1838, 168 {Raja altavcla L.) 



147. Pteroplatea altavela (Linnseus) 



Tropical Atlantic, occasionally northward to Mediterranean and in 



Gulf Stream; Beaufort, N. C.; Woods Hole, Mass.; taken at Penzance 



Point in Buzzards Bay (Nichols). 

 Raja altavela Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, 232, no locality. 

 Dasyatis attavilla Rafinesque, Indice, 1810, 49, Sicily. 

 Pleraplatea canariensis Valenciennes, Ichth. Canaries, 1843, 100, pi. 23, 



fig. 9, Canary Islands. 

 Pteraplatea lalenciennei A. Dum^ril, Elasmobranches, 1865, 612, no 



locality. 

 Pteroplatea vaillanti Rochebrune, Bull. Sci. Philom., IV, 1880, 159, no 



locality. 



148. Pteroplatea micrura (Schneider). Butterfly ray. 



Rhode Island to Brazil. 



Raia micrura Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 360, Surinam. 

 Rain maclura LeSueur, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I, 1817, 41, Rhode 

 Island. 



140. Pteroplatea niarniorata Cooper. 



Coast of California, from Point Conception soutiiward to Cedros Island; 



common. 

 Pteroplatea marmorata Cooper, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sci., Ill, 1863, 

 \\'2. fig. 25, San Diego. 



150. Pteroplatea crebripunctata Peters. Mania rain Colorado; Mauta raia. 



Gulf of California, southward along the west coast of Mexico; common. 

 Pteroplatea crebripunctata Peters, Monatsher. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1869, 



703, ALizatlan. 

 Pteroplatea ravn Jordan and Starks, in Jordan, Fishes of Sinaloa, Proc. 



Calif. Acad. Sci., Ser. 2, V, 1895, 390, Mazatlan, Mexico. 



Genus 65. UROBATIS Garman. 



Urobatis Garman, Plagiostomia, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., XXXVI, 

 1913, 401 {Leiobatus sloani Blainville). 



151. Urobatis sloani flihiinville). Maid. 



West Indies, g(Micrally common; occasionally northward; once (perhaps 



doubtfully) recorded from New .Jersey. 

 Leiobatus doani Blainville, Bull. Sci. Philom. , 1816, 121, Jamaica; after 



Pastinaca marina Sloan. 

 Raja jamaicensis Cuvier, Hegiic Anim., ed. I, 1817, 137, Jamaica. 

 Trygonobatus torpedinus Desmarest, Prcm. Dec. Ichth., I, 1823, 6, 



Cuba. 



162. Urobatis vermiculatus (Garman). 

 West Indies. 



Urobatis sloani vermiculatus Garman, Plagiostomia, Mem. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., XXXVI, 1913, 802, Progreso, Yucatan. 



153. Urobatis halleri (Cooper). Round stingray. 



(^oast of CaHfornia, from Point Conception southward. 

 Urolophus halleri Cooper, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sci., Ill, 1863, 95, 

 San Diego. 



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