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SYNONYMY. 



Synonymy of the Spotted Eagle Ray, Aetobatus narinari, in 

 Chronological Order. 



1614. Narinnary. Abbeville, Hist. Mission Peres Capucins Isle Maragnan, p. 245, Brazil. 



1633. Narrinnari. Laet, Novus Orbis, Seu Descript. Indiae Occid., p. 616, Brazil. 



. Narinari. Johann Moritz von Nassau Siegen, Brazilianisch Naturgegenstande, i, 



Tafel 332, Brazil. 

 . Narinari. Theatri Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae, Tome I, Icones Aquatilium, fig. 31, 



Brazil. 

 1648. Narinari. Marcgrave, Historia Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae, pp. 175-176, figure, 



Brazil. 

 1648. Narinari. Piso, De Medicina Brasiliensi, p. 44, Brazil. 

 1658. Narinari. Piso, Historia Naturalis & Medica Indiae Occidentalis, pp. 58 and 293, 



figures, Brazil. 

 1686. Narinari. Willughby, De Historia Piscium, p. 66, tab. C, fig. 5. 

 1697. Pastinaca marina. Sloane, Phil. Trans., vol. xix, pp. 674-676, figure, teeth, Jamaica. 

 1713. Narinari. Ray, Synopsis Methodica Avium & Piscium, p. 24. 

 1718. Narinari. Ruysch, Theatrum Universale Omnium Animalium, Piscium, etc., p. 



146, tab. XXXIX, fig. 6. 

 1725. Whip Ray. Sloane, Natural History of Jamaica, pp. 276-277, Jamaica. 

 1756. Whip Ray. Browne, Civil and Natural History of Jamaica, p. 459, Jamaica. 

 1767. Narinari. Jonston, Historia Naturalis de Piscibus et Cetis, pp. 208-209, tab. xxxix, 



fig. 6. 

 1790. Raja narinari. Euphrasen, Kong. Svens. Vet. Nya Handl., xi, pp. 217-219, tab. X. 



First binomial name, species established. St. Bartholomew, West Indies. 

 1792. Raja narinari. Walbaum, Artedi's Bibliotheca Ichthyologica, iii, p. 528. 

 1801. Raja narinari. Bloch and Schneider, Systema Ichthyologiae, p. 361. 

 1803. Raja ocellata. Russell, Fishes of Coromandel, p. 5, pi. viil, Coromandel, 



1816. Aetobatus narinari. Blainville, Journal de Phys., de Chem., et d'Hist. Nat., Lxxxiii, 



pp. 261-262. Generic name first established. 



1817. Raja narinari. Cuvier, Le Regne Animal, t. ll, p. 138. 



1830. Myliobatis narinari. Bennett, Memoir Life of Raffles, p. 694. East Indies. 

 1835. Myliobatis eeltenkee. Ruppell, Fische des Rothen Meeres, Neue Wirbelthiere, Fauna 

 Abyssinien, pp. 70-71, fig. teeth, Red Sea. 



n ^ \ A-, I ,- ■' • Agassiz, Poissons Fossiles, iii, pp. 79-80 and 325, tab. D, figs. 



l8x6.-{ A etobatts nartnart. )- " , , ^ /- , / .1 ,% 



,,,.,,. . . I and 2; tab. 46, figs. 4 and 5 (all teeth). 



{.Mykobatis nannan.J 



1839. Aetobatis indica. Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish. 11, p. 321. 



1841. Aetobatis narinari. Miiller and Henle, Systematische Beschreibung Plagiostomen, 



pp. 1 79-181. The form first definitely established under full diagnosis of 



characters. 

 1817. Myliobatis narinari. Cuvier, Le Regne Animal, vol. Poissons, pi. 118, No. 4a (teeth). 

 1844. Raja edentula. Forster (Lichtenstein ed.) Descriptiones Animalium, etc., pp. 227- 



229, South Seas. 



^ \ Aetobatis narinari. Owen, Odontography, pp. 46-48, pi. 16, fig. i (section through 



f dried head). 



1845 J 



1849. Stoasodon narinari. Cantor, Jour. Asiatic Soc, Bengal, xvili, pp. 434-435, Bay 



Bengal. 

 1852. Aetobatis narinari. Bleeker, Verh. Bataav. Gen. Kunst. en Weten., xxiv, p. 88, 



East Indies. 

 1859. Goniobatis meleagris. Agassiz, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist , vi, p. 385, Sandwich 



Islands. 



