Bathytoshia lata ( Garman, 1880 )

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 : 91

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scientific name	Bathytoshia lata ( Garman, 1880 )
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Bathytoshia lata ( Garman, 1880) View in CoL View at ENA

Brown Stingray

Trygon lata Garman, 1880: 170 View in CoL . Holotype (unique): MCZ 129 About MCZ -S. Type locality: Hawaiian Islands .

Local synonymy: Dasyabatis agulhensis View in CoL : Barnard, 1925: 78 (original description, holotype apparently lost, caught on the Agulhas Bank, South Africa); Fowler, 1941: 418; Smith, 1949a: 70. Dasyatis lubricus: Smith, 1957e: 429 View in CoL , pl. 15 (original description, Algoa Bay, holotype SAIAB [former RUSI] 431); Smith, 1961a: 565, fig. 79a, pl. 108. Dasyatis thetidis: Wallace, 1967c: 40 View in CoL , fig. 20; Compagno & Heemstra, 1984: 3; Compagno, 1986: 137, fig. 30.4; Compagno et al., 1989: 102, pl.; Compagno, 1999: 117; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 147; Weigmann, 2016: 969. Bathytoshia lata View in CoL : Last et al. 2016h: 354; Last et al. 2016i: 532, fig. 25.3.

South Africa voucher material: SAIAB 431 About SAIAB (Holotype of D. lubricus ) . SAIAB 7868 About SAIAB [former ORI B842 View Materials ] , SAIAB 7878 About SAIAB [former ORI B806 View Materials ] , SAIAB 7890 About SAIAB [former ORI B843 View Materials ] , SAIAB 26642 About SAIAB , SAIAB 26969 About SAIAB , SAIAB 27443 About SAIAB , SAIAB 27575 About SAIAB , SAIAB 40960 About SAIAB , SAIAB 79496 About SAIAB .

South African distribution: Cape Agulhas (WC) to Kosi Bay (KZN).

Remarks: Barnard (1925) first reported this species in South African waters by describing Dasyatis agulhensis as a new species. Smith (1957e) also described it as a new species, D. lubricus , from off Algoa Bay, but both these species were synonymized by Wallace (1967c) as D. thetidis , which was long considered valid until Last et al. (2016h) revised the family and concluded that it is Bathytoshia lata , a wide-ranging species of large stingray found in the Indo-Pacific and Eastern Atlantic, including the Mediterranean Sea.

Conservation status: NE.