| Arabian Banded Whipray | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Superorder: | Batoidea |
| Order: | Myliobatiformes |
| Family: | Dasyatidae |
| Genus: | Maculabatis |
| Species: | M. randalli |
| Binomial name | |
| Maculabatis randalli (Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & A. B. M. Moore, 2012) | |
| Synonyms | |
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The Arabian banded whipray (Maculabatis randalli), is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae.[1] It is native to the Persian Gulf. It reaches a length of 41.2 cm (16.2 in). [2]
Etymology
The ray is named in honor of John E. Randall (1924–2020), of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu.[3]
References
- ↑ Last, P.R., B.M. Manjaji-Matsumoto and A.B.M. Moore, 2012. Himantura randalli sp. nov., a new whipray (Myliobatoidea: Dasyatidae) from the Persian Gulf. Zootaxa 3327:20–32.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Maculabatis randalli" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order MYLIOBATIFORMES (Stingrays)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
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