| Maculabatis | |
|---|---|
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| M. gerrardi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Superorder: | Batoidea |
| Order: | Myliobatiformes |
| Family: | Dasyatidae |
| Subfamily: | Urogymninae |
| Genus: | Maculabatis Last, Naylor & Manjaji-Matsumoto, 2016 |
| Type species | |
| Trygon gerrardi Gray, 1851 | |
Maculabatis is a genus of stingrays in the family Dasyatidae from the Indo-Pacific. Its species were formerly contained within the genus Himantura.[1]
Species
The genus contains two groups, the "gerrardi-complex" containing spotted species and the "pastinacoides-complex" containing plain species.
- Maculabatis ambigua Last, Bogorodsky & Alpermann, 2016 (Baraka's whipray)
- Maculabatis arabica Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2016 (Pakistan whipray)
- Maculabatis astra (Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & Pogonoski, 2008) (Black-spotted whipray)
- Maculabatis bineeshi Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2016 (Short-tail whipray)
- Maculabatis gerrardi (Gray, 1851) (Whitespotted whipray)
- Maculabatis macrura (Bleeker, 1852)
- Maculabatis pastinacoides (Bleeker, 1852) (Round whipray)
- Maculabatis randalli (Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & A. B. M. Moore, 2012) (Arabian banded whipray)
- Maculabatis toshi (Whitley, 1939) (Brown whipray)
References
- ↑ Last, P.R.; Naylor, G.J.; Manjaji-Matsumoto, B.M. (2016). "A revised classification of the family Dasyatidae (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes) based on new morphological and molecular insights". Zootaxa. 4139 (3): 345–368. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4139.3.2. PMID 27470808.
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