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Urobatis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Scientific name
  
Urobatis

Higher classification
  
Urotrygonidae

Order
  
Stingrays

Family
  
Urotrygonidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Genus

Subclass
  
Elasmobranchii

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Lower classifications
  
Round stingray, Yellow stingray, Bullseye round stingray, Tumbes round stingray, Chilean round stingray

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 United States.

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)
  • Urobatis jamaicensis G. Cuvier, 1816 (Yellow stingray)
  • Urobatis maculatus Garman, 1913 (Spotted round ray)
  • Urobatis marmoratus Philippi {Krumweide}, 1893 (Chilean round stingray)
  • Urobatis pardalis Del-Moral-Flores, Angulo, M. I. Bussing & W. A. Bussing, 2015
  • Urobatis tumbesensis Chirichigno F. & McEachran, 1979 (Tumbes round stingray)

    • References

    Urobatis Wikipedia
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