Maculabatis

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Kingdom Animalia Class Chondrichthyes Family Dasyatidae		Phylum Chordata Order Myliobatiformes Rank Genus

Similar Freshwater whipray, Himantura, Stingrays, Whiptail stingray

Maculabatis is a genus of stingrays in the family Dasyatidae from the Indo-Pacific. Its species were formerly contained within the genus Himantura.

Species

The genus contains two groups, the "gerrardi-complex" containing spotted species and the "pastinacoides-complex" containing plain species.

Maculabatis ambigua Last, Bogorodsky & Alpermann, 2016 (Baraka's whipray)

Maculabatis arabica Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2016 (Pakistan whipray)

Maculabatis astra (Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & Pogonoski, 2008) (Black-spotted whipray)

Maculabatis bineeshi Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2016 (Short-tail whipray)

Maculabatis gerrardi (Gray, 1851) (Whitespotted whipray)

Maculabatis macrura (Bleeker, 1852)

Maculabatis pastinacoides (Bleeker, 1852) (Round whipray)

Maculabatis randalli (Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & Moore, 2012) (Arabian banded whipray)

Maculabatis toshi (Whitley, 1939) (Brown whipray)

References

Maculabatis Wikipedia

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