lymma, Raja Fabricius [J. C.] in Niebuhr (ex Forsskål) 1775:17, viii [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] Al-Luhayya, Yemen, Red Sea. No types known. Spelled lymnia by Bonnaterre 1788:5 [ref. 4940]. Sometimes misspelled lymna. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:12 [ref. 30182]. •Valid as Taeniura lymma (Forsskål 1775) -- (Dor 1984:19 [ref. 29757], Compagno 1986:141 [ref. 5648], Allen & Swainston 1988:28 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:43 [ref. 12442], Nishida 1990:92 [ref. 19783] as lymna, Randall et al. 1990:29 [ref. 15987], Last & Stevens 1994:411 [ref. 23873], Goren & Dor 1994:5 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:47 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:79 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:48 [ref. 23977], Larson & Williams 1997:346 [ref. 23967], Kuiter 1997:22 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:29 [ref. 25919], Last & Compagno 1999:1495 [ref. 24639], Compagno 1999:497 [ref. 25589], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:583 [ref. 25122], Allen 2000:95 [ref. 25868], Kimura & Peristiwady in Matsuura & Peristiwady 2000:105 [ref. 27511] as lymna, Hutchins 2001:16 [ref. 25847], Allen & Adrim 2003:22 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S94 [ref. 27377], Adrim et al. 2004:118 [ref. 27715], Bonfil & Abdallah 2004:51 [ref. 27735], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:84 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:19 [ref. 28239], Compagno et al. 2005:75 [ref. 29145], Paxton et al. 2006:195 [ref. 28995], Schwartz 2008:38 [ref. 36773] as Taeinura l., Last el al. 2010:232 [ref. 32461], Fricke et al. 2011:347 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:65 [ref. 31980], Naylor et al. 2012:77 [ref. 32267] see remarks, Larson et al. 2013:21 [ref. 32988], Ebert et al. 2013:363 [ref. 33045], Yoshida et al. 2013:16 [ref. 34464], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:411 [ref. 33460], Fricke et al. 2014:15 [ref. 33932], Manjaji-Matsumoto in Kimura et al. 2015:9 [ref. 34319], Psomadakis et al. 2015:104 [ref. 34104], Weigmann 2016:141 [ref. 34211], Last et al. 2016:359 [ref. 34581], Last et al. 2016:393 [ref. 34638], Last et al. 2016:606 [ref. 35010], Motomura et al. 2017:26 [ref. 35490], White et al. 2017:260 [ref. 35860], Fricke et al. 2018:26 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:16 [ref. 36273], Kumar et al. 2018:298 [ref. 36178], White & Ko'ou 2018:61 [ref. 35922], Eagderi et al. 2019:11 [ref. 37020], Zajonz et al. 2019:60 [ref. 36871], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 4 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:209 [ref. 37272], Ebert et al. 2021:96 [ref. 38234], Haroon & Kibria 2021:119 [ref. 39241], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:41 [ref. 41223], Vilasri et al. 2023:71 [ref. 40764]). •Valid as Taeniura lymma (Fabricius 1775) -- (Fricke 2008:12 [ref. 30182], Manjaji-Matsumoto et al. 2022:612 [ref. 39674], Allen & Erdmann 2024:69 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Taeniura lymma (Fabricius 1775). Dasyatidae: Neotrygoninae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: northern KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar, Mascarenes (Mauritius) and Persian Gulf east to Papua New Guinea, north to Philippines, south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.
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