Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Classis: Chondrichthyes
Subclassis: Elasmobranchii
Infraclassis: Euselachii
Division/Cohort: Neoselachii
Subdivision/Subcohort: Batoidea
Superordo: Batomorphii
Ordo: Myliobatiformes
Subordo: Myliobatoidei
Superfamilia: Dasyatoidea
Familia: Aetobatidae
Genus: Aetomylaeus
Species: A. asperrimus – A. bovinus – A. caeruleofasciatus – A. maculatus – A. milvus – A. nieuhofii – A. vespertilio
Name
Aetomylaeus Garman, 1908
Type species: Myliobatus maculatus Gray, 1834
Etymology: combination of Aetobatus and Myliobatis, referring to similarity of body and fins between the two genera. (From The ETYFish Project).
Synonyms
Pteromylaeus Garman, 1913
Vernacular names
References
Garman, S. 1908. New Plagiostomia and Chismopnea. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 51(9): 249–256. BHL Reference page.
Links
Aetomylaeus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Aetomylaeus species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Aetomylaeus is a genus of eagle rays in the family Myliobatidae.
Species
There are currently 8 recognized species in this genus:
Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Aetomylaeus asperrimus (C. H. Gilbert, 1898) Rough eagle ray [2] Panama and the Galapagos Islands
Aetomylaeus bovinus (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817) [2] Bull ray coasts of Europe and Africa.
Aetomylaeus caeruleofasciatus W. T. White, Last & Baje, 2015 Blue-banded eagle ray[3] northern Australia and southern Papua New Guinea
Aetomylaeus maculatus (J. E. Gray, 1834) Mottled eagle ray India to China and Indonesia.
Aetomylaeus milvus (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841) Smooth eagle ray Red Sea to China, south to Indonesia.
Aetomylaeus nichofii (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) Banded eagle ray Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, possibly Maldives
Aetomylaeus vespertilio (Bleeker, 1852) Ornate eagle ray coasts of Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Mozambique, Palau, Philippines, Seychelles, South Africa, Taiwan, and Thailand
Aetomylaeus wafickii (Jabado, Ebert & Al Dhaheri, 2022) Wafic’s eagle ray[4] Oman, United Arab Emirates
The recognized extinct species:[5]
†Aetomylaeus cojimarensis Iturralde-Vinent, Mora, Rojas & Gutierriez, 1998
†Aetomylaeus cubensis Iturralde-Vinent, Mora, Rojas & Gutierriez, 1998
References
Sepkoski, J.J.Jr (2002). "A Compendium of Fossil Marine Animal Genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23.
White, W.T. (2014). "A revised generic arrangement for the eagle ray family Myliobatidae, with definitions for the valid genera". Zootaxa. 3860 (2): 149–166. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3860.2.3. PMID 25283197.
White, W.T.; Last, P.R. & Baje, L. (2015). "Aetomylaeus caeruleofasciatus, a new species of eagle ray (Myliobatiformes: Myliobatidae) from northern Australia and New Guinea". Ichthyological Research. 63 (1): 94–109. doi:10.1007/s10228-015-0480-9. S2CID 18638667.
Jabado, R.W.; Ebert, D.A. & Al Dhaheri, S.S. (2022). "Resolution of the Aetomylaeus nichofii species complex, with the description of a new eagle ray species from the northwest Indian Ocean and a key to the genus Aetomylaeus (Myliobatiformes: Myliobatidae)". Marine Biodiversity. 52 (2): Article 15. Bibcode:2022MarBd..52...15J. doi:10.1007/s12526-021-01234-4.
"Extinct - valid species | Species | Shark-References". shark-references.com. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
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