An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa Author Ebert, David A. Author Wintner, Sabine P. 0000-0001-7350-5999 Author Kyne, Peter M. 0000-0003-4494-2625 debert@mlml.calstate.edu text Zootaxa 2021 2021-03-17 4947 1 1 127 journal article 7365 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1 74dc998a-dc7a-4b02-b43c-a2064c9c6dc2 1175-5326 4614567 7F3B4794-65CF-4691-A330-78A423F2606F Bathytoshia lata ( Garman, 1880 ) Brown Stingray Trygon lata Garman, 1880: 170 . Holotype (unique): MCZ 129 -S. Type locality: Hawaiian Islands . Local synonymy : Dasyabatis agulhensis : 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 , pl. 15 (original description, Algoa Bay, holotype SAIAB [former RUSI] 431); Smith, 1961a: 565 , fig. 79a, pl. 108. Dasyatis thetidis : Wallace, 1967c: 40 , 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 : Last et al . 2016h: 354 ; Last et al . 2016i : 532 , fig. 25.3. South Africa voucher material : SAIAB 431 ( Holotype of D. lubricus ) . SAIAB 7868 [former ORI B842 ] , SAIAB 7878 [former ORI B806 ] , SAIAB 7890 [former ORI B843 ] , SAIAB 26642 , SAIAB 26969 , SAIAB 27443 , SAIAB 27575 , SAIAB 40960 , SAIAB 79496 . 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.