schmardae, Trygon Werner [F.] 1904:298 [Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere (Jena) v. 21 (no. 3); ref. 15220] Jamaica. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1904.4.30.12. •Questionably valid as Himantura schmardae (Werner 1904) -- (Compagno 1999:496 [ref. 25589]). •Valid as Himantura schmardae (Werner 1904) -- (Castro-Aguirre 1965:239 [ref. 41098], Cervigón 1992:200 [ref. 23827], Castro-Aguirre & Espinosa Pérez 1996:46 [ref. 22793], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:182 [ref. 23897], Aguilera 1998:45 [ref. 24221], Cervigón & Alcalá 1999:190 [ref. 24490], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:72 [ref. 24550], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:147 [ref. 27754], Camargo & Isaac 2001:144 [ref. 27639], Gomes & Gadig in Menezes et al. 2003:30 [ref. 27192], McEachran & Carvalho 2003:568 [ref. 26985], Smith et al. 2003:6 [ref. 27621], Santos et al. 2004:2 [ref. 27848], Almeida et al. 2008:92 [ref. 40893], Carvalho & Lovejoy 2011:46 [ref. 31182], Naylor et al. 2012:79 [ref. 32267] see remarks, Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:130 [ref. 34398], Weigmann 2016:137 [ref. 34211], Last et al. 2016:346 [ref. 34581] not in Dasyatidae). •Valid as Styracura schmardae (Werner 1904) -- (Carvalho et al. 2016:205 [ref. 34827], Carvalho 2016:655 [ref. 34997], Ehemann et al. 2018:26 [ref. 36194], Ehemann et al. 2019:[7] [ref. 36861], Sales et al. 2020:[2] [ref. 37528], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:73 [ref. 38844], Blanco-Parra & Niño-Torres 2022:Correction, p. 5 [ref. 38986], Angulo et al. 2023:12 [ref. 40676], Carvalho-Filho 2023:321 [ref. 40480], Castillo Domínguez et al. 2023:7 [ref. 40663], Page et al. 2023:46 [ref. 40505], Fricke et al. 2024:97 [ref. 41622]). Current status: Valid as Styracura schmardae (Werner 1904). Potamotrygonidae: Styracurinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Bahamas and Cuba south to Ceará (Brazil), including southern Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Habitat: marine.