Squalus edentulus Brünnich, 1768: 6

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Squalus edentulus Brünnich, 1768: 6 (Marseille, France) Raia mobular Bonnaterre, 1788: 5 (Marseille, France) Raja vespertilio Walbaum, 1792: 535 (Azores, northeastern Atlantic) Aodon cornu Lacepède, 1798 (unneeded new name for

S. edentulus Brünnich, 1768 ) Raia aurita Suckow, 1799: 78 Raja fabroniana Lacepède, 1800: 104 , 111, pl. 5 (figs

1, 2) ( Livourne , Italy; holotype MZUF probably lost)

Raja cephaloptera Bloch & Schneider, 1801: 365 (no locality; holotype ZMB 13407 , skull)

Raja giorna Lacepède, 1803: 662 , 666, pl. 20 (fig. 3) (Bay of Nice, France)

Raja diabolus Shaw, 1804: 291 (Mediterranean, Atlantic and Indian seas)

Mobula auriculata Rafinesque, 1810: 48 , 61

Apterurus fabroni Rafinesque, 1810: 48 (unjustified emendation of Raja fabroniana Lacepède, 1800 )

Cephalopterus massena Risso, 1810: 15 (Nice, France)

? Raia cornuta Lesueur, 1824: 120 (based on Azores records, not from US Atlantic coast)

Cephaloptera japanica Müller & Henle, 1841: 185 (Nagasaki, Japan; lectotype RMNH D 2440 ; paralectotype RMNH, lost)

Cephaloptera edentula Griffini, 1903: 132 , fig. 73 (Italian seas)

Mobula rancureli Cadenat, 1959: 1331 , figs 1–10 ( Ivory Coast; holotype MNHN 1965-0146 )