ancylostomus, Rhina Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:352, Pl. 72 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae.; ref. 471] Coromandel, India. Lectotype: ZMB (lost). Paralectotypes: ZMB 4621 (1, dry, lost). Type catalog: Paepke & Schmidt 1988:175 [ref. 21041], Paepke 1999:122-123 [ref. 24282]. Lectotype designated by Paepke 1999:123 [ref. 24282] as the specimen figured in Pl. 72. •Valid as Rhina ancylostoma Bloch & Schneider 1801 -- [seen as ancylostoma and ancylostomus, ancylostoma probably correct] -- (Dor 1984:14 [ref. 29757], Nakaya in Masuda et al. 1984:12 [ref. 6441], Compagno 1986:128 [ref. 5648], Allen & Swainston 1988:24 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:53 [ref. 12442], Last & Stevens 1994:296 [ref. 23873], Goren & Dor 1994:4 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:42 [ref. 22896], Allen 1997:44 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:493 [ref. 25919], Fricke 1999:29 [ref. 24106], Morón et al. 1999:149 [ref. 24253], Compagno & Last 1999:1421 [ref. 24637], Johnson 1999:718 [ref. 25471], Compagno 1999:485 [ref. 25589], Nakabo 2000:159 [ref. 25086], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:582 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:15 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:159 [ref. 26001], Youn 2002:64, 480 [ref. 26218] as ancylostomus, Sujatha 2002:157 [ref. 26899] as ancyclostoma, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S93 [ref. 27377], Bonfil & Abdallah 2004:47 [ref. 27735], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:79 [ref. 28072], Compagno et al. 2005:59 [ref. 29145], Paxton et al. 2006:175 [ref. 28994], Fricke et al. 2011:347 [ref. 31242]). Current status: Valid as Rhina ancylostoma Bloch & Schneider 1801. Rhinobatidae: Rhininae. Distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, South Africa, Seychelles and Mauritius (Mascarenes) east to Philippines, north to southern Japan, south to Exmouth Gulf (Western Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.