Family Gymnuridae * Gymnura altavela (Linnaeus, 1758) —Uje-manta; Spiny butterfly ray Lowe 1839: 92 | Lowe 1843: 94 (as Trygon altavela) Günther 1870: 486 | Noronha & Sarmento 1934: 124 and 143 | Nobre 1935: 487 | Fowler 1936: 131 | Noronha & Sarmento 1948: 121 | Maul 1948: 140 | Albuquerque 1954 –56: 174 (as Pteroplatea altavela) Krefft & Stehmann 1973b: 72 | McEachran & Capapé 1984: 204 | Sanches 1986: 116 | Lloris et al. 1991 | Wirtz et al. 2008: 5 | Ebert & Stehmann 2013: 401 | Carneiro et al. 2014: 16. Distribution in Macaronesia. Madeira and Canary Islands (Brito et al. 2002; Brito Hernández & Sancho Rafel 2003). Remarks. two formalin preserved specimens in MMF (MMF 14040, 22137) collections (dated from 1958 and 1966). A specimen was collected off Madeira’s north coast in 2005 and lived for seven years in the Aquarium of Porto Moniz (Carolina Ornelas, pers. comm.). Commonly seen by divers in Madeira, including authors (CR and MF).

Published as part of Biscoito, Manuel, Ribeiro, Cláudia & Freitas, Mafalda, 2018, Annotated checklist of the fishes of the archipelago of Madeira (NE Atlantic): I-Chondrichthyes, pp. 459-494 in Zootaxa 4429 (3) on page 482, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1285016