lata, Trygon Garman [S.] 1880:170 [Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology v. 6 (no. 11); ref. 17881] Hawaiian Islands. Holotype (unique): MCZ 129-S. Type catalog: Hartel & Dingerkus 1997:xlv [ref. 23119]. •Valid as Dasyatis latus (Garman 1880) -- (Nishida & Nakaya 1990:337 [ref. 20166]). •Valid as Dasyatis lata (Garman 1880) -- (Compagno 1999:496 [ref. 25589], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:582 [ref. 25122], Rosenberger 2001:615 [ref. 25447], Mundy 2005:105 [ref. 28379], Randall 2007:43 [ref. 30952], Weigmann 2016:130 [ref. 34211]). •Valid as Bathytoshia lata (Garman 1880) -- (Last & Yearsley 2016:5 [ref. 34940], Last et al. 2016:354 [ref. 34581], Last et al. 2016:532 [ref. 35010], Biscoito et al. 2018:480 [ref. 37562], Kumar et al. 2018:297 [ref. 36178], Almeida & Biscoito 2019:172 [ref. 37302], Carneiro et al. 2019:49 [ref. 37250], Reiner 2019:45 [ref. 38139], Psomadakis et al. 2020:204 [ref. 37272], Serena et al. 2020:502 [ref. 37963], Ebert et al. 2021:91 [ref. 38234], Giovos et al. 2021:7 [ref. 38895], Bañón & Mano 2022:16 [ref. 40121], Barone et al. 2022:56 [ref. 39527], Fermon et al. 2022:106 [ref. 39448], Hata et al. 2022:53 [ref. 39311], Hsu et al. 2022:3 [ref. 39567], Manjaji-Matsumoto et al. 2022:600 [ref. 39674], Balàka et al. 2023:6 [ref. 40410], Balisco et al. 2023:5 [ref. 39932], Shakman et al. 2023:463 [ref. 40810], Leeney 2024:86 [ref. 40985]). Current status: Valid as Bathytoshia lata (Garman 1880). Dasyatidae: Dasyatinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; eastern Atlantic: Spain south to Angola, including Madeira, Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands and São Tomé and Principe; Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), Mozambique, southern Oman and western Mascarenes (La Réunion) east to western Indonesia, northern Borneo and Palawan (Philippines), north to Chiba Prefecture (Japan), south to Tasmania (Australia) and northern New Zealand. Habitat: marine.