vespertilio, Myliobatis Bleeker [P.] 1852:85 [Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. v. 24 (art. 12); ref. 333] Jakarta, Java, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): ?RMNH 7460. •Valid as Aetomylaeus vespertilio (Bleeker 1852) -- (Last & Stevens 1994:451 [ref. 23873], Heemstra in Smith & Heemstra 1995:vii [ref. 21953], Anderson et al. 1998:21 [ref. 23611], Compagno & Last 1999:1518 [ref. 24637], Compagno 1999:497 [ref. 25589], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:583 [ref. 25122], Allen & Adrim 2003:22 [ref. 26830], Bonfil & Abdallah 2004:54 [ref. 27735], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:87 [ref. 28072] as Aetomyleus, Randall 2005:22 [ref. 28239], Compagno et al. 2005:79 [ref. 29145], Allen et al. 2006:207 [ref. 29002], Last el al. 2010:250 [ref. 32461], Fricke et al. 2011:348 [ref. 31242], Ho & Shao 2011: 21 [ref. 31432], Larson et al. 2013:22 [ref. 32988], Ebert et al. 2013:367 [ref. 33045], Bineesh et al. 2014:1269 [ref. 33218], White et al. 2015:[15] [ref. 33897], Weigmann 2016:150 [ref. 34211], White & Naylor 2016:437 [ref. 34575] in Myliobatidae, White & Last 2016:714 [ref. 35016], White et al. 2017:278 [ref. 35860], Golani & Fricke 2018:17 [ref. 36273], White & Ko'ou 2018:66 [ref. 35922], Bineesh et al. 2020:26 [ref. 37641], Moore et al. 2020:109 [ref. 37357], Psomadakis et al. 2020:212 [ref. 37272], Ebert et al. 2021:97 [ref. 38234], Carvalho & Soares 2022:622 [ref. 39676], Jabado et al. 2022:12 [ref. 39046], Allen & Erdmann 2024:71 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Aetomylaeus vespertilio (Bleeker 1852). Myliobatidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) and India east to Papua New Guinea, north to Taiwan, south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.