australiae, Rhynchobatus djiddensis Whitley [G. P.] 1939:245, Fig. 14 [Australian Zoologist v. 9 (pt 3); ref. 4695] Off Manning River mouth, New South Wales, Australia. Holotype (unique): AMS IA.4959. •Synonym of Rhynchobatus djiddensis (Forsskål 1775) -- (Paxton et al. 1989:54 [ref. 12442], Last & Stevens 1994:298 [ref. 23873]). •Valid as Rhynchobatus australiae Whitley 1939 -- (Compagno & Last 1999:1421 [ref. 24637], Compagno 1999:485 [ref. 25589], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:582 [ref. 25122], Bonfil & Abdallah 2004:47 [ref. 27735], Compagno et al. 2005:60 [ref. 29145], Paxton et al. 2006:175 [ref. 28994], Compagno & Last 2008:230 [ref. 29689], Compagno & Last 2010:77 [ref. 30851], Last el al. 2010:148 [ref. 32461], Weigmann 2011:254 [ref. 32424], Allen & Erdmann 2012:62 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:17 [ref. 32988], Last et al. 2013:185 [ref. 33039], Ebert et al. 2013:346 [ref. 33045], Yoshida et al. 2013:13 [ref. 34464], Bineesh et al. 2014:1267 [ref. 33218], Weigmann 2016:82 [ref. 34211], Last et al. 2016:472 [ref. 34473], Last et al. 2016:233 [ref. 34563], Last et al. 2016:68 [ref. 34992], White et al. 2017:202 [ref. 35860], Fricke et al. 2018:23 [ref. 35805], Kumar et al. 2018:297 [ref. 36178], White & Ko'ou 2018:47 [ref. 35922], Eagderi et al. 2019:15 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:43 [ref. 36673], Bineesh et al. 2020:22 [ref. 37641], Psomadakis et al. 2020:194 [ref. 37272], Koeda et al. 2020:1 [ref. 37788], Bogorodsky et al. 2021:515 [ref. 38242], Koeda et al. 2020:234 [ref. 37788], Iino et al. 2021:7 [ref. 38464], Wada et al. 2021:36 [ref. 38521], Ebert et al. 2022:563 [ref. 39671], Hsu et al. 2022:3 [ref. 39567], Zajonz et al. 2022:20 [ref. 40522], Allen & Erdmann 2024:63 [ref. 40796], Glaus et al. 2024:8 [ref. 40788]). Current status: Valid as Rhynchobatus australiae Whitley 1939. Rhinidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Socotra (Yemen) and Persian Gulf east to Philippines, New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) and Fiji, north to Amami Islands (southern Japan), south to eastern Australia. Habitat: marine.
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