fai, Himantura Jordan [D. S.] & Seale [A.] 1906:184, Fig. 2 [Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries v. 25 (for 1905); ref. 2497] Apia, Upolu Island, Samoa. Holotype (unique): USNM 51712. •Valid as Himantura fai Jordan & Seale 1906 -- (Last & Stevens 1994:400 [ref. 23873], Yoshigou & Yoshino 1999:39 [ref. 23925], Myers 1999:38 [ref. 23965], Last & Compagno 1999:1486 [ref. 24639], Johnson 1999:718 [ref. 25471], Compagno 1999:496 [ref. 25589], Nakabo 2000:178 [ref. 25086], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:583 [ref. 25122], Randall & Earle 2000:5 [ref. 25806], Hutchins 2001:15 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:178 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:22 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:610 [ref. 27495], Bonfil & Abdallah 2004:48 [ref. 27735], Randall 2005:18 [ref. 28239], Randall et al. 2005:117 [ref. 28745], Compagno et al. 2005:72 [ref. 29145], Paxton et al. 2006:193 [ref. 28995], Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last 2008:293 [ref. 29695], Schwartz 2008:37 [ref. 36773], Last el al. 2010:190 [ref. 32461], Fricke et al. 2011:347 [ref. 31242], Henderson & Reeve 2011:173 [ref. 38995], Larson et al. 2013:19 [ref. 32988], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:411 [ref. 33460], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:4 [ref. 33988], Weigmann 2016:134 [ref. 34211]). •Valid as Pateobatis fai (Jordan & Seale 1906) -- (Last et al. 2016:362 [ref. 34581], Last et al. 2016:600 [ref. 35010], White et al. 2017:250 [ref. 35860], Golani & Fricke 2018:16 [ref. 36273], White & Ko'ou 2018:59 [ref. 35922], Eagderi et al. 2019:10 [ref. 37020], Bineesh et al. 2020:25 [ref. 37641], Golzarianpour et al. 2020:329 [ref. 37674], Psomadakis et al. 2020:208 [ref. 37272], Durville et al. 2021:310 [ref. 38802], Ebert et al. 2021:94 [ref. 38234], Hsu et al. 2022:4 [ref. 39567], Manjaji-Matsumoto et al. 2022:610 [ref. 39674], Glaus et al. 2024:7 [ref. 40788]). Current status: Valid as Pateobatis fai (Jordan & Seale 1906). Dasyatidae: Urogymninae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, Oman, Persian Gulf and La Pérouse Seamount (western Mascarenes) east to Marquesas Islands, south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.
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