crebripunctata, Pteroplatea Peters [W. (C. H.)] 1869:703 [Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1869; ref. 14098] Mazatlán, Sinaloa, western Mexico (purchased). Holotype (unique): ZMB 7068. Type catalog: Paepke & Schmidt 1988:179 [ref. 21041]. •Synonym [male] of Gymnura marmorata (Cooper 1863) -- (authors). •Valid as Gymnura crebripunctata (Peters 1869) -- (McEachran in Fischer et al. 1995:758 [ref. 22829], Castro-Aguirre & Espinosa Pérez 1996:53 [ref. 22793], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:35 [ref. 24545], Cota-Gómez et al. 1998:103 [ref. 24503], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:65 [ref. 24550], Compagno 1999:497 [ref. 25589], Nelson et al. 2004:57 [ref. 27807], Jacobsen & Bennett 2009:21 [ref. 30470], Smith et al. 2009:762 [ref. 31278], Page et al. 2013:57 [ref. 32708], Weigmann 2016:142 [ref. 34211] see remarks, Yokota et al. 2016:514 [ref. 35009], Ehemann et al. 2018:27 [ref. 36194], Calle-Morán et al. 2020:247 [ref. 37881], González-Acosta et al. 2021:8 [ref. 38361], Gales et al. 2023:[3] [ref. 40704], Page et al. 2023:47 [ref. 40505], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:74 [ref. 40816], Ehemann et al. 2024:563 [ref. 41359], Fricke et al. 2024:101 [ref. 41622]). Current status: Valid as Gymnura crebripunctata (Peters 1869). Gymnuridae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: southern Gulf of California south to Oaxaca (Mexico). IUCN (2019): Near Threatened. Habitat: marine.