bovina, Myliobatis Geoffroy St. Hilaire [E.] 1817:no page number, Pl. 26 (fig. 1) [Poissons du Nil v. 1 (part 1); ref. 4184] Off Alexandria, Egypt, eastern Mediterranean Sea. No types known. Type catalog: Séret & McEachran 1987:33 [ref. 9312]. •Valid as Pteromylaeus bovinus (Geoffroy St. Hilaire 1817) -- (Krefft & Stehmann 1973:74 [ref. 7167], McEachran & Capapé in Whitehead et al. 1984:206 [ref. 13675], Compagno 1986:133 [ref. 5648], Capapé 1987:22 [ref. 39326] as Pterompylaeus, McEachran & Séret 1990:69 [ref. 19318], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:97 [ref. 25472], Compagno 1999:498 [ref. 25589], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:27 [ref. 26753], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:87 [ref. 28072], Golani 2005:15 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:21 [ref. 29533], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:15 [ref. 36649], Séret 2016:1429 [ref. 34545], Golani 2021:12 [ref. 38303], Bañón & Mano 2022:17 [ref. 40121]). •Valid as Aetomylaeus bovinus (Geoffroy St. Hilaire 1817) -- (White et al. 2015:[15] [ref. 33897], Weigmann 2016:149 [ref. 34211] with authorship as Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, White & Naylor 2016:437 [ref. 34575] in Myliobatidae, White & Last 2016:709 [ref. 35016], Biscoito et al. 2018:482 [ref. 37562], Almeida & Biscoito 2019:175 [ref. 37302], Carneiro et al. 2019:51 [ref. 37250], Reiner 2019:51 [ref. 38139], Bariche & Fricke 2020:24 [ref. 37515], Ćetković & Pesić in Gerovasileiou et al. 2020:349 [ref. 37890], Kovačić et al. 2020:8 [ref. 37519], Serena et al. 2020:502 [ref. 37963], Ebert et al. 2021:97 [ref. 38234], Giovos et al. 2021:7 [ref. 38895], Moreno Mendoza et al. 2021:[4] [ref. 38868], Kovačić et al. 2021:17 [ref. 39014], Barone et al. 2022:62 [ref. 39527], Carvalho & Soares 2022:620 [ref. 39676], Fermon et al. 2022:108 [ref. 39448], Jabado et al. 2022:11 [ref. 39046], Balàka et al. 2023:6 [ref. 40410], Kurtay et al. 2023:218 [ref. 40603], Shakman et al. 2023:463 [ref. 40810], Artüz & Fricke 2024:537 [ref. 41509]). Current status: Valid as Aetomylaeus bovinus (Geoffroy St. Hilaire 1817). Myliobatidae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; eastern Atlantic, southwestern Indian Ocean: Spain south to Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), including Madeira, Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands and São Tomé and Principe, then north to Mozambique and Zanzibar (Tanzania). Habitat: brackish, marine.
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