World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
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Baer, G. A. (1899). [On the capture of a large Manta, 5.25 m., on the coast of Peru, with remarks on the occurrence of this ray in the gulf of Panama. Discussion by Prof. Vaillant.]. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Série 1). 5 (3): 111-113.
Walbaum, J. J. (1792). Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium. In quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum classibus, ordinibus, generum characteribus, specierum differentiis, observationibus plurimis. Redactis speciebus 242 ad genera 52. Ichthyologiae pars III. Ant. Ferdin. Rose, Grypeswaldiae [Greifswald]. Part 3: [i-viii] + 1-723, Pls. 1-3.
Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum. Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110.
Bancroft, E. N. (1829). On the fish known in Jamaica as the sea-devil. Zoological Journal, London. v. 4 (no. 16) (art. 55): 444-457.
Newman, E. (1849). Enormous undescribed fish, apparently allied to the Raiidae, killed off California. The Zoologist: a Popular Miscellany of Natural History. 7(1849): 2357-2358.
Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549.
Mitchill, S. L. (1824). Description of a new and gigantic species of the genus Cephalopterus of Duméril. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. 1: 23-29, Pl. 2 (Fig.1).
Müller, J.; Henle, F. G. J. (1838-1841). Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen. Veit und Comp., Berlin. i-xxii + 1-200, 60 pls. [Pp. 1-28 published in 1838, reset pp. 27-28, 29-102 in 1839, i-xxii + 103-200 in 1841. Please note the different authors responsible for some species.].