Smooth butterfly ray

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Smooth butterfly ray
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Rajiformes
Family: Gymnuridae
Genus: Gymnura
Species: G. micrura
Binomial name
Gymnura micrura
(Bloch & Schneider, 1801)

The smooth butterfly ray (Gymnura micrura) is a species of fish in the Gymnuridae family. It is found in Belize, Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Gambia, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are shallow seas, subtidal aquatic beds, estuarine waters, and coastal saline lagoons.

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