jayakari, Rhinoptera Boulenger [G. A.] 1895:141 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6) v. 15 (no. 86) (art. 15); ref. 14547] Muscat, Oman, Gulf of Oman, Arabian Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1894.3.21.13 (skin). •Questionably valid as Rhinoptera jayakari Boulenger 1895 -- (Compagno 1999:498 [ref. 25589]). •Valid as Rhinoptera jayakari Boulenger 1895 -- (Randall 1995:49 [ref. 22896], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S94 [ref. 27377], Last el al. 2010:252 [ref. 32461], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:146 [ref. 33423], Psomadakis et al. 2015:107 [ref. 34104], Weigmann 2016:152 [ref. 34211], Last & Yearsley 2016:7 [ref. 34940], Last et al. 2016:736 [ref. 35017], Fricke et al. 2018:28 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:17 [ref. 36273], Kumar et al. 2018:298 [ref. 36178], Eagderi et al. 2019:13 [ref. 37020], Zajonz et al. 2019:60 [ref. 36871], Psomadakis et al. 2020:214 [ref. 37272], Ebert et al. 2021:97 [ref. 38234], Hsu et al. 2022:4 [ref. 39567], Human 2022:627 [ref. 39664], Zajonz et al. 2022:30 [ref. 40522]). Current status: Valid as Rhinoptera jayakari Boulenger 1895. Rhinopteridae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Persian Gulf and Madagascar east to Philippines, north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to southern Indonesia. Habitat: marine.