grabatus, Trygon Geoffroy St. Hilaire [E.] 1817:no page number, Pl. 25 (figs. 1-2) [Poissons du Nil v. 1 (part 1); ref. 4184] Alexandria, Egypt, eastern Mediterranean Sea. No types known. Type catalog: Séret & McEachran 1987:33 [ref. 9312]. Specific name is a noun. •Valid as Taeniura grabatus (Geoffroy St. Hilaire 1817) (often seen as grabata) -- (Krefft & Stehmann 1973:73 [ref. 7167], Compagno & Roberts 1984:285 [ref. 8237], McEachran & Capapé in Whitehead et al. 1984:202 [ref. 13675], Capapé 1987:22 [ref. 39326], Capapé & Desoutter 1990:62 [ref. 19317], Biscoito & Wirtz 1994:2 [ref. 41460], Goren & Dor 1994:5 [ref. 25356] with author as Fowler 1956, Santos et al. 1997:16 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:24 [ref. 24952], Basusta et al. 1998:65 [ref. 23545], Compagno 1999:497 [ref. 25589], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:26 [ref. 26753], Golani 2005:15 [ref. 37112] as grabata, Wirtz et al. 2007:4, 24 [ref. 30263], Golani & Bogorodsky 2010:57 [ref. 35264] as grabata, Wirtz et al. 2013:116 [ref. 32972], Séret 2016:1417 [ref. 34545], Kebapcioglu & Begburs in Santín et al. 2021:213 [ref. 38223] as grabata, Golani 2021:12 [ref. 38303] as grabata, Moreno Mendoza et al. 2021:[4] [ref. 38868] as grabata, Kovačić et al. 2021:17 [ref. 39014]). •Valid as Taeniurops grabatus (Geoffroy St. Hilaire 1817) -- (Lim et al. 2015:19 [ref. 34441] as grabata, Weigmann 2016:141 [ref. 34211] as grabata with author as Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Last et al. 2016:357 [ref. 34581] as grabata, Last et al. 2016:607 [ref. 35010], Biscoito et al. 2018:481 [ref. 37562], Almeida & Biscoito 2019:167 [ref. 37302], Ben Amor et al. 2019:224 [ref. 37237] as grabata, Carneiro et al. 2019:50 [ref. 37250], Reiner 2019:47 [ref. 38139], Bariche & Fricke 2020:22 [ref. 37515], Serena et al. 2020:502 [ref. 37963], Giovos et al. 2021:7 [ref. 38895], Barone et al. 2022:60 [ref. 39527], Fermon et al. 2022:107 [ref. 39448], Capapé et al. 2023:184 [ref. 40145], Shakman et al. 2023:464 [ref. 40810]). Current status: Valid as Taeniurops grabatus (Geoffroy St. Hilaire 1817). Dasyatidae: Dasyatinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; eastern Atlantic: Morocco south to Angola, including Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands and São Tomé and Principe. Habitat: marine.
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