macrurus, Trygon Bleeker [P.] 1852:74 [Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. v. 24 (art. 12); ref. 333] Jakarta and Semarang, Java, Indonesia; Padang, western Sumatra, Indonesia. Syntypes and/or Bleeker specimens: (6) BMNH 1867.11.28.160 (1); RMNH 7442 (1 or more of 3), 8008 (2 syntypes), 8009 (1 or more of 5); NMV A949 (1); SMNS 10594 (1 syntype). Type catalog: Fricke 1991:14 [ref. 13474], Fricke 2005:34 [ref. 29864]. •Synonym of Himantura gerrardi (Gray 1851) -- (Last & Compagno 1999:1487 [ref. 24639], Bonfil & Abdallah 2004:48 [ref. 27735], Last el al. 2010:193 [ref. 32461], Weigmann 2016:135 [ref. 34211]). •Valid as Maculabatis macrura (Bleeker 1852) -- (Last & Yearsley 2016:6 [ref. 34940], Last et al. 2016:362 [ref. 34581], Last et al. 2016:66 [ref. 34669], Last et al. 2016:578 [ref. 35010], Manjaji-Matsumoto in Kimura et al. 2018:12 [ref. 36460], Golzarianpour et al. 2020:331 [ref. 37674], Haque et al. 2021:216 [ref. 38677], Endruweit 2024:32 [ref. 41040]). Current status: Valid as Maculabatis macrura (Bleeker 1852). Dasyatidae: Urogymninae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Bangladesh; Indonesia and Vietnam to Taiwan. Habitat: marine.
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