Aetomylaeus bovinus (Saint-Hilaire, 1817)

Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, Zootaxa 4947 (1), pp. 1-127 : 98

Aetomylaeus bovinus (Saint-Hilaire, 1817)

Duckbill Ray

Myliobatis bovina Saint-Hilaire, 1817 : no page number, pl. 26 (fig. 1). No known types. Type locality: Off Alexandria, Egypt, eastern Mediterranean Sea.

Local synonymy: Pteromylaeus bovinus: Barnard, 1925: 83 ; Smith, 1949a: 69, fig. 77; Barnard, 1959: 28; Smith, 1965: 69, fig. 77; Wallace, 1967c: 20, figs. 9, 10; Compagno, 1986: 133, fig. 28.3; Compagno et al., 1989: 110, pl.; Heemstra & Heemstra, 2004: 87; Weigmann, 2016: 985.? Aetomylus huletti: Smith, 1953: 513 , fig. 77a (original description); Compagno, 1986: 133. Pteromylaeus bovina: Compagno, 1999: 117 ; NPOA, 2013: 59. Aetomylaeus bovina: da Silva et al., 2015: 247 ; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 148. Aetomylaeus bovinus: White, 2014: 151 , fig. 5; White & Last, 2016a: 709, fig. 30.2.

South Africa voucher material: SAIAB 7860 [ex ORI B907], SAIAB 7862 [ex ORI], SAIAB 7880 [ex ORI B60], SAIAB 10445, SAIAB 12841, SAIAB 12848, SAIAB 13299, SAIAB 27442, SAIAB 31824, SAIAB 44291, SAIAB 51206.

South African distribution: The Orange River (NC) to KZN border with Mozambique.

Remarks: White (2014) placed the genus Pteromylaeus Garman, 1913 into synonymy with Aetomylaeus Garman, 1908 .

Conservation status: DD (2016).