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Genus 69. AETOBATUS '« Blainville. Eagle rays. 

 Aetobatus Blainville, Jour. Phj^s., LXXXIII, 1816, 261 (Rata aquila as 



Aetobatus vulgaris Blainville). 

 Myliobatis Dumeril in Cuvier, Regne Anim., ed. I, 1817, 137 {Raia 



aquila). 

 Holorhinus Gill, Proe. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIV, 1862, 331 {Rhinoptera 



vespertilio Gira.rd = Myliobatus californicus Gill). 



162. Aetobatus freminvillii (LeSueur). Stingaree; Sharp-nosed ray; Long- 



tailed stingray. 

 Cape Cod to Brazil. 

 Myliobatis freminuillii LeSueur, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., IV, 1824, 



111, Rhode Island. 

 Myliobatis bispinosus Storer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., I, 1841, 53, 



Massachusetts. 

 Myliobatis acuta Ayres, loc. cit., I, 1842, 65, Brookhaven, Long Island, 



N. Y. 



163. Aetobatus goodei (Garman). 



Central .\merica to Brazil; Rio Grande do Sul. 



Myliobatis goodei Garman, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, 1885, 39, 

 Central America. 



164. Aetobatus californicus (Gill). California stingray; Batfish. 



California from Cape Medocino southward. 



Rhinoptera vespertilio Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VIII, 1856, 



137, Tomales Bay; not Myliobatis vespertilio Bleeker. 

 Myliobatis californicus Gill, .\nn. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., VIII, 1865, 



137; after Girard. 



Family 29 RHINOPTERIDiE 



Genus 70. RHINOPTERA Kuhl. 



Rhinoptera Kulil in Cuvier, Regne Anim. ed. II, II, 1829, 401 (My- 

 liobatis marginatus Goeffroy). 



Zygobalis Agassiz, Poiss. Fossiles, III, 1836, 79 {Z. jussieui Agassiz). 



Mylorhina Gill, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., VII, 1865, 136 (Rhinoptera 

 lalandi Miiller and Henle). 



Micromesus Gill, loc. cit., 136 (^Rhinoptera adspersa Miiller and Henle). 



165. Rhinoptera bonasus Mitchill. Cowfish; Cow-nosed ray. 



Cape Cod to Florida. 



Rhinoptera bonasus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 1815, 479, 



New York; description inadequate. 

 Rata quadriloba LeSueur, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I, 1817, 44, 



New Jersey. 



166. Rhinoptera steindachneri Kvermaiin and Jenkins. Gabilan. 



Gulf of California. 



Rhinoptera steindachneri Evermann and Jenkins, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., XIV, 1891, 130, pi. 1, fig. 1, Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. 



167. Rhinoptera encenadse Ro.sa Smith. 



Todos Santos Bay, Lower California. 



Rhinoptera encenadx Rosa Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IX, 1886, 

 220, Ensenada de TckIos Santos, Lower California. Jaw only. 



Family 30. MOBULID^. Sea devils 



Genus 71. MOBULA Rafinesque. 



Mobula Rafinesque, Indice, 1810, 61 (M. auriculata = Squalus edentulua 



Brunnich). 

 Apterurus Rafinesque, Indice, 1810, 62 (A. fabroni Rafinesque). 

 Cephalopterus Risso, Ichth. Nice, 1810, 14 (Raja giorna Lac^pfide); 



not of Goeffroy St. Hilaire, 1809, a genus of birds. 

 Dicerobatus Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom., 1816, 116 (Raja mobular 



Lacepi^de). 

 Pterocephala Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish., Amphib., etc., II, 1839, 321, 



(Raja giorna Lac6p6de). 



'« Muller and Henle correctly referred Aftohaliu Blainville to the type of liaja aquila, spelling the name, 

 however, a.s Aftobatia. They then created a new genu3, Aelobalis for Jiaia narinari, an arrangement with- 

 out warrant. 



