Whiptail stingray

Blaupunktrochen ( Taeniura lymma )

The piercing or Whiptail Rays ( Dasyatidae ) are a family of rays. The family comprises seven genera and 84 species.

Features

Depending on the species, the body slice of stingray is trapezoidal in shape to oval. They have a long, whip-like tail, which carries one or more, sometimes barbed spines in most species. These spikes are surrounded by glandular tissue containing the toxin. As the teeth of the rays to be replaced, this prickly regularly every one to two years. The spiked resisted tail is primarily used in defense and is beaten at risk forward over the body.

Dissemination

The distribution of stingrays consists mainly of the Indo-Pacific area between the Red Sea and East Africa to the reefs off the Australian coast, but also in the Atlantic, there are occurrences such as the American stingrays ( Dasyatis americana) from the Canary Islands until the American coast between New jersey and Brazil or the common eagle ray ( Dasyatis pastinaca ) from the North Sea to the Canary Islands. Most species live exclusively in the sea.

Unlike the representatives of the family of freshwater stingrays, which occur exclusively in river systems of South America, there are at the Stingray also species that migrate up from the sea, the rivers, such as the spring -tail stingray ( Pastinachus sephen ). Only a few species, such as the Laos stingray ( Dasyatis laosensis ), live exclusively in rivers.

System

  • Genus Dasyatis Rafinesque, 1810 Dasyatis acutirostra Nishida & Nakaya, 1988
  • Dasyatis akajei ( Müller & Henle, 1841)
  • Dasyatis bennettii ( Müller & Henle, 1841)
  • Dasyatis brevicaudata ( Hutton, 1875)
  • Dasyatis brevis (also Dasyatis dipterura ) ( Garman, 1880)
  • Dasyatis centroura ( Mitchill, 1815)
  • Dasyatis chrysonota (Smith, 1828)
  • Dasyatis fluviorum Ogilby, 1908
  • Dasyatis garouaensis ( Stauch & Blanc, 1962)
  • Dasyatis geijskesi Boeseman, 1948
  • Dasyatis giganteus ( Lindberg in Soldatov & Lindberg, 1930)
  • Dasyatis guileri load, 1979
  • Dasyatis guttata ( Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
  • Dasyatis izuensis Nishida & Nakaya, 1988
  • Dasyatis laevigata Chu, 1960
  • Laos stingray ( Dasyatis laosensis ) Roberts & Karnasuta, 1987
  • Dasyatis latus ( Garman, 1880)
  • Dasyatis longus ( Garman, 1880)
  • Dasyatis margarita ( Gunther, 1870)
  • Dasyatis Margaritella Compagno & Roberts, 1984
  • Dasyatis marianae Gomes, Rosa & Gadig, 2000
  • Dasyatis matsubarai Miyosi, 1939
  • Dasyatis microps ( Annandale, 1908)
  • Dasyatis navarrae ( Steindachner, 1892)
  • Common stingray ( Dasyatis pastinaca ) (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Dasyatis purpurea ( Müller & Henle, 1841)
  • Dasyatis rudis ( Günther, 1870)
  • Atlantic stingray ( Dasyatis sabina ) ( Lesueur, 1824)
  • Dasyatis say ( Lesueur, 1817)
  • Dasyatis sinensis ( Steindachner, 1892)
  • Dasyatis thetidis Ogilby in Waite, 1899
  • Dasyatis ukpam (Smith, 1863)
  • Dasyatis ushiei ( Jordan & Hubbs, 1925)
  • Dasyatis zugei ( Müller & Henle, 1841)
  • Himantura alcockii, ( Annandale, 1909)
  • Himantura bleekeri, ( Blyth, 1860)
  • Himantura chaophraya, Monkolprasit & Roberts, 1990
  • Himantura draco, Compagno & Heemstra, 1984
  • Purple Stingray ( Himantura fai ) Jordan & Seale, 1906
  • Himantura favus, ( Annandale, 1909)
  • Himantura gerrardi, (Gray, 1851)
  • Grained stingrays ( Himantura granulata ) ( Macleay, 1883)
  • Himantura imbricata ( Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
  • Himantura jenkinsii, ( Annandale, 1909)
  • Himantura krempfi, ( Chabanaud, 1923)
  • Himantura marginata ( Blyth, 1860)
  • Himantura microphthalma, (Chen, 1948)
  • Himantura oxyrhyncus, ( Sauvage, 1878)
  • Himantura pacifica ( Beebe & Tee - Van, 1941)
  • Himantura Pareh, ( Bleeker, 1852)
  • Himantura pastinacoides, ( Bleeker, 1852)
  • Himantura polylepis ( Bleeker, 1852)
  • Himantura schmardae, ( Werner, 1904)
  • Himantura signifer, Compagno & Roberts, 1982
  • Himantura toshi Whitley, 1939
  • Himantura uarnacoides, ( Bleeker, 1852)
  • Indo- Australian Tüpfelrochen ( Himantura uarnak ) ( Forsskål, 1775)
  • Himantura undulata, ( Bleeker, 1852)
  • Makararaja chindwinensis, Roberts, 2007
  • Neotrygon annotatus (Last, 1987)
  • Gray Stingray ( Neotrygon kuhlii ) ( Müller & Henle, 1841)
  • Masks stingrays ( Neotrygon leylandi ) (Last, 1987)
  • Neotrygon picta Last & White, 2008
  • Pastinachus Atrus ( Macleay, 1883)
  • Pastinachus gracilicaudus Last & Manjaji - Matsumoto, 2010
  • Feathertail stingray ( Pastinachus sephen ) ( Forsskål, 1775)
  • Pastinachus stellurostris load, family & Naylor, 2010
  • Pastinachus solocirostris load Manjaji & Yearsley, 2005
  • Pelagic Stingray ( Pteroplatytrygon violacea ) ( Bonaparte, 1832)
  • Taeniura grabata ( Geoffroy Saint- Hilaire, 1817)
  • Blaupunkt stingrays ( Taeniura lymma ) ( Forsskål, 1775)
  • Black Point stingrays ( Taeniura meyeni ) Müller & Henle, 1841
  • Hedgehog skate ( Urogymnus asperrimus ) ( Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
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