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 Aetobatus ocellatus (Kuhl, 1823) Whitespotted Eagle Ray Myliobatus ocellatus Kuhl , in van Hasselt , 1823: 316 . No original types designated. Neotype : MZB 18225. Type locality: Muara Angke fish landing site, Jakarta , Indonesia . Local synonymy : Aetobatis narinari : M̹ller & Henle, 1841: 179 ; Gilchrist & Thompson, 1911: 56 ; Gilchrist & Thompson, 1916: 289 ; von Bonde & Swart, 1923: 17 ; Barnard, 1925: 83 , fig. 1, pl. 5; Fowler, 1925b: 194 ; von Bonde, 1932: 32 ; Fowler, 1941: 471 . Stoasodon narinari : Smith, 1949a: 68 , fig. 74. Aetobatus narinari : Wallace, 1967c: 15 , fig. 7; Compagno, 1986: 132 , fig. 26.1; Compagno et al ., 1989: 114 , pl.; Compagno, 1999: 117 ; Heemstra & Heemstra, 2004: 87 ; NPOA, 2013: 59 ; da Silva et al ., 2015: 247 ; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 148 . Aetobatus ocellatus : White, 2014: 151 . White & Last, 2016b: 731 , fig. 31.5; Weigmann, 2016: 985 . South Africa voucher material : SAIAB 12843, SAIAB 48514. South African distribution : Knysna (WC) to KZN border with Mozambique . Remarks : Aetobatus narinari ( Euphrasen, 1790 ) was shown to be a species-complex based on molecular work by Richards et al. (2009); although they did not have access to samples from South Africa , or indeed from the WIO. White et al. (2010) resurrected A. ocellatus as the valid name for the Indo-Pacific, with A. narinari being restricted to the Western and Eastern Atlantic, occurring from Angola northwards ( White & Last, 2016 ). Conservation status : VU (2016).