halavi, Raja Fabricius [J. C.] in Niebuhr (ex Forsskål) 1775:19, viii [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] Jeddah, Saudia Arabia, Red Sea. No types known. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:11 [ref. 30182]. •Valid as Rhinobatos halavi (Forsskål 1775) -- (Krefft & Stehmann 1973:54 [ref. 7167], Dor 1984:15 [ref. 29757], Compagno & Randall 1987:340 [ref. 9128], Goren & Dor 1994:4 [ref. 25356], Randall & Compagno 1995:2919 [ref. 22577], Randall 1995:42 [ref. 22896], Compagno & Last 1999:1428 [ref. 24637], Compagno 1999:485 [ref. 25589], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:582 [ref. 25122], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S93 [ref. 27377], Bonfil & Abdallah 2004:45 [ref. 27735], Last et al. 2006:267 [ref. 29418], Ben Souissi et al. 2007:68 [ref. 41440]). •Valid as Glaucostegus halavi (Forsskål 1775) -- (Compagno et al. 2005:61 [ref. 29145], Psomadakis et al. 2012:15 [ref. 33457], Psomadakis et al. 2015:98 [ref. 34104], Weigmann 2016:85 [ref. 34211], Last et al. 2016:473 [ref. 34473], Séret et al. 2016:113 [ref. 34993], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[20] 258 [ref. 36492], Golani & Fricke 2018:14 [ref. 36273], Almeida & Biscoito 2019:127 [ref. 37302], Eagderi et al. 2019:16 [ref. 37020], Serena et al. 2020:502 [ref. 37963]). •Valid as Glaucostegus halavi (Fabricius 1775) -- (Fricke 2008:11 [ref. 30182], Habib & Islam 2021:141 [ref. 38397], Kovačić et al. 2021:15 [ref. 39014], Barone et al. 2022:44 [ref. 39527], Hsu et al. 2022:3 [ref. 39567], Séret & Carvalho 2022:574 [ref. 39672]). Current status: Valid as Glaucostegus halavi (Fabricius 1775). Glaucostegidae. Distribution: Red Sea; northwestern Indian Ocean: Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Pakistan. Record from Mediterranean Sea needs verification. Habitat: marine.