114 NOMENCLATURE OF THE MYLIOBATIDM— GILL. vol. xvii. 



Genus AETOBATIS. 



<^Ai'iobatiis, Blainville, Journal de Physique, t. 83, p. 262, 1816. 

 =Aetobatis, Mullkh & Henlk, Mag. Nat. Hist., v. 2, p. 90, 1838. 

 <^Z!i(johates, Agassiz, Rech. Poias. Foss., v. 3, p. 328, 1843. 

 ^Sioasodon, Cantor, Cat. Malayan Fish., p. 434, 1850. 

 <^(ioniobatis, Agassiz, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., v. 6, p. 385, 1861. 

 MyliohaiiH syt., Dumkkil, etc. 



ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS OF AETOF.ATUS. 



Ah the works in Avhicli IJlaiuville published his doscriptioiis of Aeto- 

 batiis are inaccessible to many investigators, the description pubH'shed 

 in the Journal de Physi(|ue (vol. 83, p. 203, 1810) is here reproduced. 



5' , A'ctobatus ant R. Aquilw. 



Car. Corp. cum P. P. ii(|uil;e formi; Capite crasso uou rostrato, appeudice simplici 

 antice instructo; Oculis lateralibus; Dentibus latis, hevibus, polygonis, coalitis, 

 palatiuis; P. P. acutis, margine autico convexo, postico concavo; P. V. ut in 

 pra'cedeute [lry(jonobatns'\; P. S. nnica ad radicem caud. sa^pc^ longissima^, fiag- 

 elliformis, aculeo senate armata', extreraitate impeuuis. 



Spec. Vulgaris; Obtusns: Flagellum; Lobatus; Sinensis; Nichoiii ; Filicaudatus; 

 Hamatus ; Ocellatiis, Nariuari, Forsteri, 



