Himantura uarnak ( Gmelin, 1789 )

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 : 92-93

Himantura uarnak ( Gmelin, 1789)

Reticulate Stingray

Raja uarnak Gmelin, 1789: 1509 . Types: No known types. Type locality: Red Sea [no locality stated].

Local synonymy: Trygon uarnak : Bleeker, 1860b: 58 (in part); Gilchrist, 1902: 169 (in part). Dasybatus uarnak : Regan, 1908a: 242 (in part); von Bonde & Swart, 1923: 16 (in part); Barnard, 1925: 76: Barnard, 1959: 27. Dasyatis uarnak (non Gmelin, 1789): Thompson, 1914: 163 (in part); Gilchrist & Thompson, 1916: 287 (in part); Fowler, 1934b: 409 (in part); Fowler, 1935: 364 (in part); Fowler, 1941: 405 (in part); Smith, 1949a: 70, pl. 4 (in part); Smith, 1961a: 70, pl. 4 (in part); Smith, 1965: 70, pl. 4 (in part); Wallace, 1967c: 44, fig. 22 (figure is H. leoparda ). Himantura uarnak (non Gmelin, 1789): Compagno & Heemstra, 1984: 3 (in part); Compagno, 1986: 139, fig. 30.10 (in part); Compagno et al., 1989: 108, pl. (in part); Compagno, 1999: 117 (in part); Heemstra & Heemstra, 2004: 83. Himantura uarnak: Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2008: 293 ; Mann, 2013: 59; NPOA, 2013: 61; da Silva et al., 2015: 246 (in part); Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 147; Last et al., 2016h: 361; Last et al., 2016i: 563, fig. 25.34; Weigmann, 2016: 974.

South Africa voucher material: SAIAB 11155 [ex ORI 581], SAIAB 11156 [ex ORI B582], SAIAB 16426, SAIAB 80368, SAIAB 201755.

South African distribution: East London (EP) to the KZN border with Mozambique.

Remarks: The recently described Himanturua tutul is a junior synonym of H. uarnak . See remarks under H. leoparda .

Conservation status: VU (2016).