powelli, Raja Alcock [A. W.] 1898:145 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7) v. 2 (no. 8) (art. 22); ref. 92] Gulf of Martaban, Myanmar, 14°26'N, 96°23'E, Investigator station 226, depth 67 fathoms. Holotype (unique): ZSI F235/1. Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:96 [ref. 20743], Menon & Rama-Rao 1975:33 [ref. 22148]. Figured in Alcock 1899: Pl. 26 (fig. 4) [ref. 20535]. •Valid as Raja powelli Alcock 1898 -- (Stehmann 1976:158 [ref. 7085], McEachran & Fechhelm 1982:447 [ref. 8444], Séret 1989:126 [ref. 12827], Fricke & Al-Hassan 1995:8 [ref. 22649]). •Valid as Okamejei powelli (Alcock 1898) -- (McEachran & Dunn 1998:285 [ref. 23312], Compagno 1999:492 [ref. 25589], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S93 [ref. 27377], Jeong et al. 2007:62 [ref. 29187], Last et al. 2010:89 [ref. 30852], Weigmann et al. 2015:29 [ref. 33795], Weigmann 2016:116 [ref. 34211]). •Valid as Orbiraja powelli (Alcock 1898) -- (Last et al. 2016:53 [ref. 34868], Last et al. 2016:24 [ref. 34941], Last et al. 2016:316 [ref. 35000], Kumar et al. 2018:297 [ref. 36178] as cf. powelli, Bineesh et al. 2020:23 [ref. 37641] as cf. powelli, Psomadakis et al. 2020:202 [ref. 37272], Aschliman & Ebert 2022:585 [ref. 39668]). Current status: Valid as Orbiraja powelli (Alcock 1898). Rajidae. Distribution: Northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden (Yemen), Travancore coast (India). Habitat: marine.
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