Johannes Peter Müller
As "Taeniura meyeni", the round ribbontail ray was described by German biologists Johannes Peter Müller and Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle in their 1841 "Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen", based on two syntypes collected from Mauritius. However, this species is better known under the name "Taeniura melanospila" (or "melanospilos"), which was applied by Dutch ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker to a juvenile specimen from Java, in a 1953 volume of the scientific journal "Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië".