microps, Trygon Annandale [N.] 1908:393, Pl. 27 [Records of the Indian Museum (Calcutta) v. 2 (pt 4) (art. 38); ref. 14301] Bay of Bengal, off Chittagong coast, depth 17 fathoms. Holotype (unique): ZSI F2410/1. Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:97 [ref. 20743]. •Valid as Dasyatis microps (Annandale 1908) -- (Mohsin & Ambak 1996:76 [ref. 27969], Adam et al. 1998:7 [ref. 23610], Last & Compagno 1999:1501 [ref. 24639], Compagno 1999:496 [ref. 25589], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:582 [ref. 25122], Paxton et al. 2006:192 [ref. 28995], Schwartz 2008:36 [ref. 36773], Last el al. 2010:182 [ref. 32461], Larson et al. 2013:18 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:26 [ref. 32989], Bineesh et al. 2014:1267 [ref. 33218], Weigmann 2016:132 [ref. 34211]). •Probably not in Dasyatis -- (Lim et al. 2015:10 [ref. 34441]). •Valid as Megatrygon microps (Annandale 1908) -- (Last et al. 2016:356 [ref. 34581], Last et al. 2016:583 [ref. 35010], White et al. 2017:236 [ref. 35860], White & Ko'ou 2018:56 [ref. 35922], Eagderi et al. 2019:9 [ref. 37020], Psomadakis et al. 2020:207 [ref. 37272], Ebert et al. 2021:93 [ref. 38234], Manjaji-Matsumoto et al. 2022:607 [ref. 39674]). Current status: Valid as Megatrygon microps (Annandale 1908). Dasyatidae: Dasyatinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), Mozambique and Persian Gulf east to Indonesia and New Guinea, south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.
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