Urogymnus
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Urogymnus | |
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U. asperrimus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Order: | Myliobatiformes |
Family: | Dasyatidae |
Subfamily: | Urogymninae |
Genus: | Urogymnus J. P. Müller & Henle, 1837 |
Type species | |
Raja asperrima | |
Synonyms | |
Urogymnus is a genus of stingrays in the family Dasyatidae from marine, brackish and freshwater habitats in the Indo-Pacific and tropical East Atlantic regions. The genus was previously considered to be monotypic, containing only the porcupine ray (U. asperrimus). Molecular phylogenetic research published in 2016 reassigned several species from Himantura to Urogymnus.[1]
Species
- Urogymnus acanthobothrium Last, White & Kyne, 2016 (Mumburarr whipray)[2]
- Urogymnus asperrimus (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Porcupine ray)
- Urogymnus dalyensis (Last & Manjaji-Matsumoto, 2008) (Freshwater whipray)
- Urogymnus granulatus (Macleay, 1883) (Mangrove whipray)
- Urogymnus lobistoma (Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2006) (Tubemouth whipray)
- Urogymnus polylepis (Bleeker, 1852) (Giant freshwater stingray)
- Urogymnus africana (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
- Urogymnus africanus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
- Urogymnus natalensis (Gilchrist & Thompson, 1911)
- Urogymnus poecilura (Shaw, 1804)
- Urogymnus rhombeus Klunzinger, 1871
- Urogymnus ukpam (Smith, 1863)
- Urogymnus aperrimus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
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.
- ^ Last, P.R.; White, W.T.; Kyne, P.M. (2016). "Urogymnus acanthobothrium sp. nov., a new euryhaline whipray (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from Australia and Papua New Guinea". Zootaxa. 4147 (2): 162–176. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4147.2.4.
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