Annotated checklist of the fishes of the archipelago of Madeira (NE Atlantic): I-Chondrichthyes Biscoito, Manuel Ribeiro, Cláudia Freitas, Mafalda Zootaxa 2018 2018-06-07 4429 3 459 494 Fowler 1934 [246,405,332,358] Chondrichthyes Gymnuridae GBIF Animalia Myliobatiformes 23 482 Chordata family   Lowe 1839: 92 | Lowe 1843: 94 (as  Trygon altavela)  Günther 1870: 486 | Noronha & Sarmento 1934: 124 and 143 | Nobre 1935: 487 | Fowler 1936: 131 | Noronha & Sarmento 1948: 121 | Maul 1948: 140 | Albuquerque 1954–56: 174 (as  Pteroplatea altavela)  Krefft & Stehmann 1973b: 72 | McEachran & Capapé 1984: 204 | Sanches 1986: 116 | Lloris et al. 1991| Wirtz et al. 2008: 5 | Ebert & Stehmann 2013: 401 | Carneiro et al. 2014: 16.   Distribution in Macaronesia. Madeiraand Canary Islands ( Brito et al. 2002; Brito Hernández & Sancho Rafel 2003).   Remarks.two formalin preserved specimens in MMF (MMF 14040, 22137) collections (dated from 1958 and 1966). A specimen was collected off Madeira’s north coast in 2005 and lived for seven years in the Aquarium of PortoMoniz ( Carolina Ornelas, pers. comm.). Commonly seen by divers in Madeira, including authors (CR and MF).