equatorialis, Raja Jordan [D. S.] & Bollman [C. H.] 1890:150 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 12 (no. 770); ref. 2433] Off Pacific coast of Colombia, 8°06'30"N, 78°51'W, Albatross station 2797, depth 33 fathoms. Holotype (unique): USNM 41132. •Valid in an unnamed new genus -- (Compagno 1999:493 [ref. 25589]). •Valid as Raja equatorialis Jordan & Bollman 1890 -- (Castro-Aguirre 1965:218 [ref. 41098], Bussing & López S. 1994:30 [ref. 23101], McEachran in Fischer et al. 1995:777 [ref. 22829], Castro-Aguirre & Espinosa Pérez 1996:37 [ref. 22793], McEachran & Dunn 1998:286 [ref. 23312], De la Cruz-Agüero & Cota-Gómez 1998:356 [ref. 23520], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:84 [ref. 24555], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:63 [ref. 24550], Nelson et al. 2004:56 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:12 [ref. 37547], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:120 [ref. 34398], Weigmann 2016:119 [ref. 34211], Bessudo et al. 2021:[3] 1771 [ref. 39107]). •Valid as Rostroraja equatorialis (Jordan & Bollman 1890) -- (Last et al. 2016:24 [ref. 34941] with question, Last et al. 2016:356 [ref. 35000], Ehemann et al. 2018:25 [ref. 36194], Calle-Morán et al. 2020:246 [ref. 37881], González-Acosta et al. 2021:7 [ref. 38361], Love et al. 2021:27 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:45 [ref. 40505], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:66 [ref. 40816], Fricke et al. 2024:91 [ref. 41622]). Current status: Valid as Rostroraja equatorialis (Jordan & Bollman 1890). Rajidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of southern Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to Peru, including Gulf of California (Mexico) and Malpelo Island (Colombia). Habitat: marine.
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