Taeniura lymma ( Forsskål, 1775 )

Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, Zootaxa 4947 (1), pp. 1-127 : 96

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scientific name	Taeniura lymma ( Forsskål, 1775 )
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Taeniura lymma ( Forsskål, 1775) View in CoL View at ENA

Blue-spotted Fantail Ray

Raja lymma Forsskål, 1775: 17 View in CoL . No types known. Type locality: Al-Luhayya , Yemen, Red Sea.

Local synonymy: Taeniura lymma: Wallace, 1967c: 31 View in CoL , fig. 15; Compagno & Heemstra, 1984: 3; Compagno, 1986: 141, fig. 30.13; Compagno et al., 1989: 108, pl.; Compagno, 1999: 117; Heemstra & Heemstra, 2004: 84; NPOA, 2013: 62; da Silva et al., 2015: 246; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 147; Last et al., 2016h: 359; Last et al., 2016i: 606, fig. 25.77; Weigmann, 2016: 977.

South Africa voucher material: SAIAB 12838, SAIAB 48835.

South African distribution: Northern KZN.

Remarks: Common in northern KZN and northwards throughout the tropical Indo-West Pacific, but rare in southern KZN.

Conservation status: NT (2009).