dipterurus, Dasybatis Jordan [D. S.] & Gilbert [C. H.] 1880:31 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 3 (no. 106); ref. 2466] San Diego Bay, California, U.S.A. Syntypes: (4) ?NMW 77758 (1); USNM 24880 (orig. 4), 110967 [ex 26782] (2 jaws), 26782 (1); ?ZMB 11573 [ex USNM 26782] (1); ?ZMUB [ex USNM 26782] (1). Type catalog: Frøiland 1979:144 [ref. 21547], Paepke & Schmidt 1988:176-177 [ref. 21041]. Nishida & Nakaya 1990:336 [ref. 20166] treat Dasyatis dipterurus as a synonym of D. brevis, but dipterurus (published ca. 18 May 1880) has priority over brevis (Oct. 1880). •Wrongly as a synonym of Dasyatis brevis (Garman 1880) -- (Nishida & Nakaya 1990:336 [ref. 20166], Castro-Aguirre & Espinosa Pérez 1996:45 [ref. 22793], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:65 [ref. 24555], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:75 [ref. 24550], Nelson et al. 2004:56 [ref. 27807], Mundy 2005:105 [ref. 28379]). •Valid as Dasyatis dipterura (Jordan & Gilbert 1880) -- (Love et al. 2005:13 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:105 [ref. 28379], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:188 [ref. 30957], Page et al. 2013:57 [ref. 32708], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:127 [ref. 34398], Weigmann 2016:129 [ref. 34211], Fourriére et al. 2016:440 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:605 [ref. 34923], Kells et al. 2016:84 [ref. 35888]). •Valid as Hypanus dipterurus (Jordan & Gilbert 1880) -- (Last et al. 2016:356 [ref. 34581], Last et al. 2016:566 [ref. 35010], Ebert et al. 2017:60 [ref. 35618], Ehemann et al. 2018:26 [ref. 36194], Calle-Morán et al. 2020:246 [ref. 37881], González-Acosta et al. 2021:8 [ref. 38361], Love et al. 2021:28 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:46 [ref. 40505], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:5 [ref. 40981], Petean et al. 2024:7 [ref. 40884]). Current status: Valid as Hypanus dipterurus (Jordan & Gilbert 1880). Dasyatidae: Dasyatinae. Distribution: Central Pacific: Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.); eastern Pacific: southern California (U.S.A.) south to northern Chile, including Gulf of California (Mexico) and Galápagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: marine.