Aetobatus Blainville, 1816

Ebert, David A., White, William T., Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Last, Peter R., Nakaya, Kazuhiro, Séret, Bernard, Straube, Nicolas, Naylor, Gavin J. P. & De Carvalho, Marcelo R., 2013, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Taiwan, Zootaxa 3752 (1), pp. 279-386 : 365-366

Genus Aetobatus Blainville, 1816

Bonnetrays / ǎḍé

Aetobatus Blainville, 1816: 112 [=120]. Type species: Raja aquila Linnaeus, 1758 , by subsequent designation; type often given as narinari since aquila is now placed in Myliobatis ; more research is required.

Aetobatus ocellatus (Kuhl in van Hasselt, 1823)

Whitespotted Eagle Ray / ḊŌȅḍ

Myliobatus ocellatus Kuhl in van Hasselt, 1823: 316. No original types designated; Java, Indonesia. Neotype: MZB 18225, juvenile male 477 mm DW (1422 mm TL), Muara Angke fish market, Jakarta, Java, Indonesia; neotype designation by White et al. (2010).

Local synonymy: Aetobatus narinari: Chen & Chung, 1971: 47 , fig. 29; Liu et al., 1985: 89 (not fig.); Chen & Yu, 1986: 163; Chen & Joung, 1993: 88, pl. 13 (fig. 3); Shao et al., 1993: 126; Chen et al., 1995: 25; Chen, 2004: 25; Shao et al., 2008: 237; Schluessel et al., 2010a: 1278; Schluessel et al., 2010b: 46; Shen & Wu, 2011: 104, fig. Aetobatus ocellatus: White et al. (2010) : 141.

Taiwan voucher material: (7 spec.) NMMB-P 15728 ; NMMB-P 15733 ; NMMB-P 15734 ; NMMB-P 15741 ; NMMB-P 15744 ; NMMB-P 15749 ; NMMB-P 15753 .

Remarks: Relatively common in landings from coastal fisheries in Taiwanese waters, particularly off Penghu Islands. Previously considered to be conspecific with A. narinari ( Euphrasen, 1790) , which was considered to have a circumglobal distribution, but recently this was recognised as a species complex and A. ocellatus was clarified as the Indo-West Pacific species; Aetobatus narinari is probably only found in the Western Atlantic.

Conservation status: Not Evaluated.