maculatus, Urobatis Garman [S.] 1913:404 [Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology v. 36; ref. 1545] Gulf of California, Mexico, 31°21'15"N, 113°39'W, Albatross station 3025, depth 9.5 fathoms. Holotype (unique): MCZ 1003-S. Type catalog: Hartel & Dingerkus 1997:xlv [ref. 23119]. •Perhaps a synonym of Urobatis halleri (Cooper 1863) -- (Thomson et al. 2000:282 [ref. 25640]). •Valid as Urolophus maculatus (Garman 1913) -- (Castro-Aguirre 1965:222 [ref. 41098], Nishida 1990:92 [ref. 19783], Castro-Aguirre & Espinosa Pérez 1996:48 [ref. 22793], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:42 [ref. 24545], De la Cruz-Agüero & Cota-Gómez 1998:356 [ref. 23520], Nelson et al. 2004:56 [ref. 27807]). •Valid as Urobatis maculatus Garman 1913 -- (Allen & Robertson 1994:35 [ref. 22193], McEachran in Fischer et al. 1995:789 [ref. 22829], Compagno 1999:494 [ref. 25589], Love et al. 2005:13 [ref. 37547], Page et al. 2013:56 [ref. 32708], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2015:510 [ref. 33729], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:124 [ref. 34398], Weigmann 2016:161 [ref. 34211] see remarks, Last & McEachran 2016:661 [ref. 35013], Ehemann et al. 2018:27 [ref. 36194], González-Acosta et al. 2021:7 [ref. 38361], Love et al. 2021:27 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:47 [ref. 40505], Fricke et al. 2024:98 [ref. 41622]). Current status: Valid as Urobatis maculatus Garman 1913. Urotrygonidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of central Baja California (Mexico) south to Puerto Vallarta (Mexico), including Gulf of California (Mexico). Habitat: marine.