ackleyi, Raja Garman [S.] 1881:234 [Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology v. 8 (no. 11); ref. 14294] Yucatán Banks, Mexico. Holotype (unique): MCZ 748-S. Type catalog: Hartel & Dingerkus 1997:xlvi [ref. 23119]. •Valid in an unnamed new genus -- (Compagno 1999:493 [ref. 25589], McEachran & Carvalho 2003:559 [ref. 26985], Nelson et al. 2004:55 [ref. 27807]). •Valid as Raja ackleyi Garman 1881 -- (Stehmann 1971:11 [ref. 7474], Robins & Ray 1986:37 [ref. 23100], Castro-Aguirre & Espinosa Pérez 1996:35 [ref. 22793], McEachran & Dunn 1998:286 [ref. 23312], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:165 [ref. 23897], Page et al. 2013:56 [ref. 32708], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:118 [ref. 34398], Weigmann 2016:116 [ref. 34211] see remarks). •Valid as Rostroraja ackleyi (Garman 1881) -- (Last et al. 2016:24 [ref. 34941] with question, Last et al. 2016:351 [ref. 35000], Ehemann et al. 2018:25 [ref. 36194], Jones et al. 2020:292 [ref. 37610], Blanco-Parra & Niño-Torres 2022:Correction, p. 5 [ref. 38986], Page et al. 2023:45 [ref. 40505], Fricke et al. 2024:91 [ref. 41622]). Current status: Valid as Rostroraja ackleyi (Garman 1881). Rajidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: southern Florida (U.S.A.) to Cuba, including eastern Gulf of Mexico off Florida (U.S.A.), and northwestern Caribbean Sea off Quintana Roo (Mexico). Habitat: marine.
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