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Genus of cartilaginous fishes

Urobatis
Urobatis pardalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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 rays live in Costa Rica, Mexico, the Bahamas, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, 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 the United States.

Species

There are currently seven recognized species in this genus:

References

  1. ^ 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 Biología Tropical. 63 (2): 501–514. doi:10.15517/rbt.v63i2.15746. hdl:10669/75287.
  2. "Leopard Round Stingray ~ Urobatis pardalis".
Taxon identifiers
Urobatis


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