bleekeri, Trygon Blyth [E.] 1860:41 [Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal v. 29 (no. 1); ref. 16970] Calcutta fish market, India. Syntypes: (2) BMNH 1892.6.17.15 (1). •Valid as Himantura bleekeri (Blyth 1860) -- (Compagno & Roberts 1982:325 [ref. 8489], Nishida 1990:92 [ref. 19783], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:43 [ref. 20764], Compagno 1999:496 [ref. 25589], Sujatha 2002:157 [ref. 26899], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S94 [ref. 27377], Compagno et al. 2005:72 [ref. 29145], Schwartz 2008:37 [ref. 36773], Kottelat 2013:26 [ref. 32989], Psomadakis et al. 2015:102 [ref. 34104], Haroon & Kibria 2021:102 [ref. 39241]). •Synonym of Hymantura uarnacoides (Bleeker 1852) -- (Last et al. 2012:31 [ref. 31993], Weigmann 2016:137 [ref. 34211]). •Valid as Pateobatis bleekeri (Blyth 1860) -- (Last & Yearsley 2016:6 [ref. 34940], Last et al. 2016:362 [ref. 34581], Last et al. 2016:599 [ref. 35010], Ali et al. 2018:304 [ref. 36183], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 4 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:208 [ref. 37272], Manjaji-Matsumoto et al. 2022:610 [ref. 39674]). Current status: Valid as Pateobatis bleekeri (Blyth 1860). Dasyatidae: Urogymninae. Distribution: Northern Indian Ocean: Persian Gulf east to Bangladesh and Myanmar. Habitat: brackish, marine.