Aetomylaeus bovinus
Description
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).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Myliobatidae
- Genus
- Aetomylaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Myliobatiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Saint-Hilaire
- Species
- bovinus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Aetomylaeus bovinus (Saint-Hilaire, 1817) sec. Ebert, Wintner & Kyne, 2021
References
- Barnard, K. H. (1925) A monograph of the marine fishes of South Africa. Part I (Amphioxus, Cyclostomata, Elasmobranchii, and Teleostei-Isospondyli to Heterosomata). Annals of the South African Museum, 21, 1 - 418.
- Smith, J. L. B. (1949 a) The Sea Fishes of Southern Africa. South Africa Central News Agency Ltd., 550 pp.
- Barnard, K. H. (1959) A Pictorial Guide to South African Fishes. Marine and Freshwater. Maskew Miller Ltd, Cape Town, 226 pp.
- Smith, J. L. B. (1965) The Sea Fishes of Southern Africa. 5 th Edition. Central News Agency Ltd., 580 pp.
- Wallace, J. H. (1967 c) The batoid fishes of the east coast of southern Africa. Part II: manta, eagle, duckbill, cownose, butterfly and sting rays. Investigational Report. Oceanographic Research Institute, Durban, 16, 1 - 56.
- Compagno, L. J. V. (1986) Families Pristidae, Narkidae, Rhinobatidae, Myliobatidae, Mobulidae, Dasyatidae, Chimaeridae, Rhinochimaeridae, Callorhinchidae. In: Smith, M. M. & Heemstra, P. C. (Eds.), Smith's Sea Fishes. Macmillan, Johannesburg, pp. 110 - 142, 144 - 147.
- Compagno, L. J. V., Ebert, D. A. & Smale, M. J. (1989) Guide to the Sharks and Rays of Southern Africa. Struik Publishers, Cape Town, 158 pp.
- Heemstra, P. C. & Heemstra, E. (2004) Coastal Fishes of Southern Africa. National Inquiry Service Centre and South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Grahamstown, 488 pp.
- Weigmann, S. (2016) Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeographical diversity. Journal of Fish Biology, 88, 837 - 1037. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jfb. 12874
- Smith, J. L. B. (1953) The Sea Fishes of Southern Africa. 3 rd Edition. South Africa Central News Agency Ltd., 564 pp.
- Compagno, L. J. V. (1999) An overview of chondrichthyan systematics and biodiversity in southern Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 54, 75 - 120. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00359199909520406
- NPOA. (2013) National Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks (NPOA-Sharks). Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), Rogge Bay, Cape Town, 63 pp.
- da Silva C., Booth, A. J., Dudley, S. F. J., Kerwath, S. E., Lamberth, S. J., Leslie, R. W., McCord, M. E., Sauer, W. H. H. & Zweig, T. (2015) A description and updated overview of the status and management of South Africa's chondrichthyan fisheries. South African Journal of Marine Science, 37, 233 - 248. https: // doi. org / 10.2989 / 1814232 X. 2015.1044471
- Ebert, D. A. & van Hees, K. E. (2015) Beyond jaws: rediscovering the " Lost Sharks " of southern Africa. African Journal of Marine Science, 37, 141 - 156. https: // doi. org / 10.2989 / 1814232 X. 2015.1048730
- White, W. T. (2014) A revised generic arrangement for the eagle ray family Myliobatidae, with definitions for the valid genera. Zootaxa, 3860 (2), 149 - 166. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3860.2.3
- Last, P. R., White, W. T., de Carvalho, M. E., Seret, B., Stehmann, M. F. W. & Naylor, G. J. P. (2016 a) Rays of the World. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York 790 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / 9780643109148
- Garman, S. (1913) The Plagiostomia (sharks, skates, and rays). Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, 36, 1 - 515.
- Garman, S. (1908) New Plagiostomia and Chismopnea. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 51 (9), 249 - 256.