Urolophus Müller [J.] & Henle [F. G. J.] 1837:117 Masc. Raja cruciata Lacepède 1804. Type by original designation (also monotypic). Can date to Müller & Henle 1837:117 as above; also 1838:90 [ref. 3066]. See also Müller & Henle 1841:173 [ref. 3069]. Misspelled Usolophus by Müller & Henle 1838:85 [ref. 3066]. •Valid as Urolophus Müller & Henle 1837 -- (Nakaya in Masuda et al. 1984:15 [ref. 6441], Cappetta 1987:165 [ref. 6348], Paxton et al. 1989:46 [ref. 12442], Nishida 1990:98 [ref. 19783], Gomon et al. 1994:175 [ref. 22532], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:66 [ref. 24550], Last & Compagno 1999:1470 [ref. 24639], Compagno 1999:494 [ref. 25589], Séret & Last 2003:307 [ref. 27523], Yearsley & Last 2006:41 [ref. 28667], Paxton et al. 2006:199 [ref. 28994], Schwartz 2008:34 [ref. 36773], Yearsley et al. 2008:261 [ref. 29691], Gomon et al. 2008:129 [ref. 30619], Shinohara et al. 2011:39 [ref. 31715], White & Last 2013:239 [ref. 33242], Dyldin 2015:76 [ref. 34524], Yearsley & Last 2016:38 [ref. 34939], Last et al. 2016:677 [ref. 35015], Motomura et al. 2017:25 [ref. 35490], White et al. 2017:274 [ref. 35860], White & Ko'ou 2018:64 [ref. 35922], Fricke et al. 2019:44 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Urolophus Müller & Henle 1837. Urolophidae.