{{Short description|Genus of cartilaginous fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{Fossil range|5|0}} Pliocene to Present<ref>{{cite journal |last=Sepkoski |first=J.J.Jr |title=A Compendium of Fossil Marine Animal Genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=363 |pages=1–560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2011-07-23 }}</ref> | image = Manta ray parking bay @ Oceanário de Lisboa.jpg | image_caption = ''Aetomylaeus bovinus'' | taxon = Aetomylaeus | authority = Garman, 1908 | synonyms = ''Pteromylaeus'' <small>Garman, 1913</small> <ref name=White2014/> }}
'''''Aetomylaeus''''' is a genus of eagle rays in the family Myliobatidae.
==Species== There are currently eight recognized species in this genus: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- | ||''Aetomylaeus asperrimus'' <small>(C. H. Gilbert, 1898)</small> ||Rough eagle ray <ref name=White2014>{{cite journal | author = White, W.T. | year = 2014 | title = A revised generic arrangement for the eagle ray family Myliobatidae, with definitions for the valid genera | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3860 | issue = 2 | pages = 149–166 | doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3860.2.3 | pmid = 25283197 }}</ref> || Panama and the Galapagos Islands |- |120px ||''Aetomylaeus bovinus'' <small>(É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817)</small> <ref name=White2014/> ||Bull ray || coasts of Europe and Africa. |- | ||''Aetomylaeus caeruleofasciatus'' <small>W. T. White, Last & Baje, 2015</small> ||Blue-banded eagle ray<ref name=White2015>{{cite journal | author = White, W.T. | author2 = Last, P.R. | author3 = Baje, L. | name-list-style = amp | year = 2015 | title = ''Aetomylaeus caeruleofasciatus'', a new species of eagle ray (Myliobatiformes: Myliobatidae) from northern Australia and New Guinea | journal = Ichthyological Research | volume = 63 | issue = 1 | pages = 94–109 | doi = 10.1007/s10228-015-0480-9 | s2cid = 18638667 }}</ref> || northern Australia and southern Papua New Guinea |- |120px||''Aetomylaeus maculatus'' <small>(J. E. Gray, 1834)</small> ||Mottled eagle ray || India to China and Indonesia. |- | ||''Aetomylaeus milvus'' <small>(J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841)</small> || Smooth eagle ray|| Red Sea to China, south to Indonesia. |- |120x120px||''Aetomylaeus nichofii'' <small>(Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801)</small> || 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 |- |120px ||''Aetomylaeus vespertilio'' <small>(Bleeker, 1852)</small> || Ornate eagle ray|| coasts of Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Mozambique, Palau, Philippines, Seychelles, South Africa, Taiwan, and Thailand |- | || ''Aetomylaeus wafickii'' <small>(Jabado, Ebert & Al Dhaheri, 2022)</small> || Wafic’s eagle ray<ref>{{cite journal|author=Jabado, R.W. |author2= Ebert, D.A. |author3= Al Dhaheri, S.S. |name-list-style=amp |year=2022 |title=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) |journal= Marine Biodiversity |volume= 52 |issue= 2 |page= Article 15|doi= 10.1007/s12526-021-01234-4 |bibcode= 2022MarBd..52...15J }}</ref>|| Oman, United Arab Emirates |- |}
The recognized extinct species:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://shark-references.com/species/listValidFossil/A|title=Extinct - valid species {{!}} Species {{!}} Shark-References|website=shark-references.com|access-date=2019-04-29}}</ref>
*{{extinct}}''Aetomylaeus cojimarensis'' <small>Iturralde-Vinent, Mora, Rojas & Gutierriez, 1998</small> *{{extinct}}''Aetomylaeus cubensis'' <small>Iturralde-Vinent, Mora, Rojas & Gutierriez, 1998</small>
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Aetomylaeus Category:Batomorphi genera Category:Taxa named by Samuel Garman Category:Extant Pliocene first appearances Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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