Pastinachus
| Pastinachus | |
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| Cowtail stingray (P. sephen) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Myliobatiformes |
| Family: | Dasyatidae |
| Genus: | Pastinachus Rüppell, 1829 |
| Type species | |
| Raja sephen Forsskål, 1775 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Pastinachus is a genus of stingrays in the family Dasyatidae. This genus was long held to be monotypic, containing only the cowtail stingray (P. sephen). Recent studies of Indo-Pacific stingrays have revealed that there are in fact a number of different species of Pastinachus, and that some former junior synonyms may need to be resurrected.[1]
Species
- Pastinachus atrus (W. J. Macleay, 1883) (Eastern cowtail stingray)
- Pastinachus gracilicaudus Last & Manjaji-Matsumoto, 2010 (Narrowtail stingray)
- Pastinachus sephen (Forsskål, 1775) (Cowtail stingray)
- Pastinachus solocirostris Last, Manjaji & Yearsley, 2005 (Roughnose stingray)
- Pastinachus stellurostris Last, Fahmi & Naylor, 2010 (Starrynose stingray)
References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Pastinachus in FishBase. February 2011 version.
- ↑ Last, P.R., Manjaji, B.M. and Yearsley, G.K. (2005). "Pastinachus solocirostris sp. nov., a new species of Stingray (Elasmobranchii: Myliobatiformes) from the Indo–Malay Archipelago". Zootaxa 1040: 1–16.