Bluespotted stingray

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Blue stingray

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Rajiformes
Family: Dasyatidae
Genus: Dasyatis
Species: D. kuhlii
Binomial name
Dasyatis kuhlii
(Müller & Henle, 1841)

Bluespotted stingray, (Dasyatis kuhlii) also known as Kuhl's Stingray is a stingray. It is light green with blue spots. Their disk width hovers around 67 cm. [1]

Bluespotted Stingray, Papua New Guinea
Bluespotted Stingray, Papua New Guinea

[edit] References

  1. ^ (2005) Reef and Shore Fishes of the South Pacific: New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands, 18. 


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