Urobatis
| Urobatis | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Myliobatiformes |
| Family: | Urotrygonidae |
| Genus: | Urobatis Garman, 1913 |
| Type species | |
| Raia (Leiobatus) sloani Blainville, 1816 | |
Urobatis is a genus of the family Urotrygonidae. These fishes live in Costa Rica, Mexico, Bahamas, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela, Panamá, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Puerto-Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Anguilla, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and USA.
Species
There are currently 7 recognized species in this genus:
- Urobatis concentricus R. C. Osburn & J. T. Nichols, 1916 (Spot-on-spot round ray)
- Urobatis halleri J. G. Cooper, 1863 (Round stingray) [1]
- Urobatis jamaicensis G. Cuvier, 1816 (Yellow stingray)
- Urobatis maculatus Garman, 1913 (Spotted round ray) [1]
- Urobatis marmoratus Philippi {Krumweide}, 1893 (Chilean round stingray)
- Urobatis pardalis Del-Moral-Flores, Angulo, M. I. Bussing & W. A. Bussing, 2015 [1]
- Urobatis tumbesensis Chirichigno F. & McEachran, 1979 (Tumbes round stingray)
References
- 1 2 3 Moral-Flores, L.F.D., Angulo, A., López, M.I. & Bussing, W.A. (2015). "A new species of Urobatis (Myliobatiformes: Urotrygonidae) from the tropical Eastern Pacific". Revista de Biologia Tropical 63 (2): 501–514. doi:10.15517/rbt.v63i2.15746.
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