Dasyatis pastinaca (Linnaeus, 1758)

Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C. & Abohweyere, P. O., 2003, A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London, Journal of Natural History 37 (18), pp. 2213-2267 : 2227

Dasyatis pastinaca (Linnaeus, 1758)

Irvine name. Trygon pastinaca (Linnaeus) .

Reference material. Accra, January 1939 (Irvine 393)— BMNH 1939.7.12:2 (one: 910 mm TL, 361 mm DW) .

Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Morocco to Angola and the Cape Verde Islands. Also known from the Mediterranean and northwards along the coast of Europe to southern Ireland and the western Baltic as well as from South Africa (Quéro et al., 1990).