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GENUS 15. STOASODON Cantor. 
General form of Aetobatis. Muzzle entire; teeth flat, broad, forming a single series corresponding 
to the middle series in Myliobatis, there being no small lateral teeth; upper dental lamina straight, 
lower curved, the latter projecting beyond the upper; free border of the nasal valve deeply emarginate; 
skin smooth. Tropical seas. 
Aetobatus Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., I, S8, 1896 ( narinari; not of Blainville, 1816, which equals 
Myliobatis Cuvier, 1817.) 
Aetobatis Muller & Henle, Plagiostomen, 179, 1841 (narinari); first restriction; not of Blainville, 1828. 
Stoasodon Cantor, Cat. Malay. Fish., 434,1850 (nar inari); substitute for Adnbatis: restricted to aquila. 
Goniobatis Agassiz, Proc. Bost. Soe. Nat. Hist., VI, 1858 (October 25), 385 (flagellum). 
17. Stoasodon narinari (Eu phrasen). Spotted Sting-Ray; “ IRliim&nu.” Fig. 7. 
Disk nearly or quite twice as broad as long; tail very long, about 2.5 times length of disk; snout 
7 in length of disk; distance from snout to eye 10 in width of disk; width of mouth 10 in length of 
disk; a long furrow in middle of interorbital space, deepest in front; spiracles obliquely placed. 
Color in life (No. 03387) mostly bluish gray above, edges of fins slightly darker; back covered 
with bluish white spots, smallest at edges of fins and largest in middle of back; belly and under part 
of head white. 
General color of whole upper surface (taken from another example) light chocolate-brown, every¬ 
where covered with roundish or oblong pearly or bluish spots or blotches, largest about size of eye, 
F. C. B. 1933—4 
