Dasyatis

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Dasyatis
Fossil range: Early Cenomanian to Present^[1]

Dasyatis brevicaudata

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Rajiformes
Family:	Dasyatidae
Genus:	Dasyatis

Species

See text.

Dasyatis is the genus of the currently accepted scientific name derived from the Greek word "dasys" meaning rough or dense and "batus" meaning shark.

[edit] Species

Genus Dasyatis
- Dasyatis acutirostra Nishida & Nakaya, 1988.
- Red stingray, Dasyatis akajei (Müller & Henle, 1841).
- Southern stingray, Dasyatis americana Hildebrand & Schroeder, 1928.
- Plain maskray, Dasyatis annotata Last, 1987.
- Bennett's stingray, Dasyatis bennetti (Müller & Henle, 1841).
- Short-tail stingray or smooth stingray, Dasyatis brevicaudata (Hutton, 1875).
- Whiptail stingray, Dasyatis brevis (Garman, 1880).
- Roughtail stingray, Dasyatis centroura (Mitchill, 1815).
- Blue stingray, Dasyatis chrysonota (Smith, 1828).
- Diamond stingray, Dasyatis dipterura (Jordan & Gilbert, 1880).
- Estuary stingray, Dasyatis fluviorum Ogilby, 1908.
- Smooth freshwater stingray, Dasyatis garouaensis (Stauch & Blanc, 1962).
- Sharpsnout stingray, Dasyatis geijskesi Boeseman, 1948.
- Giant stumptail stingray, Dasyatis gigantea (Lindberg, 1930).
- Longnose stingray, Dasyatis guttata (Bloch & Schneider, 1801).
- Dasyatis hastata (DeKay, 1842).
- Izu stingray, Dasyatis izuensis Nishida & Nakaya, 1988.
- Bluespotted stingray, Dasyatis kuhlii (Müller & Henle, 1841).
- Yantai stingray, Dasyatis laevigata Chu, 1960.
- Mekong stingray, Dasyatis laosensis Roberts & Karnasuta, 1987.
- Brown stingray, Dasyatis latus (Garman, 1880).
- Painted maskray, Dasyatis leylandi Last, 1987.
- Longtail stingray, Dasyatis longa (Garman, 1880).
- Daisy stingray, Dasyatis margarita (Günther, 1870).
- Pearl stingray, Dasyatis margaritella Compagno & Roberts, 1984.
- Dasyatis marianae Gomes, Rosa & Gadig, 2000.
- Marbled stingray, Dasyatis marmorata (Steindachner, 1892).
- Pitted stingray, Dasyatis matsubarai Miyosi, 1939.
- Smalleye stingray, Dasyatis microps (Annandale, 1908).
- Multispine giant stingray, Dasyatis multispinosa (Tokarev, 1959).
- Blackish stingray, Dasyatis navarrae (Steindachner, 1892).
- Common stingray, Dasyatis pastinaca (Linnaeus, 1758).
- Smalltooth stingray, Dasyatis rudis (Günther, 1870).
- Atlantic stingray, Dasyatis sabina (Lesueur, 1824).
- Bluntnose stingray, Dasyatis say (Lesueur, 1817).
- Chinese stingray, Dasyatis sinensis (Steindachner, 1892).
- Thorntail stingray, Dasyatis thetidis Ogilby, 1899.
- Tortonese's stingray, Dasyatis tortonesei Capapé, 1975.
- Cow stingray, Dasyatis ushiei (Jordan & Hubbs, 1925).
- Pale-edged stingray, Dasyatis zugei (Müller & Henle, 1841).