Urobatis
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.
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| Urobatis pardalis | |
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| Genus: | Urobatis Garman, 1913 |
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| Raia (Leiobatus) sloani Blainville, 1816 | |
Species
There are currently seven recognized species in this genus:
- Urobatis concentricus R. C. Osburn & J. T. Nichols, 1916 (Bullseye round stingray)
- 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 molleni Hovestadt & Hovestadt-Euler, 2010
- Urobatis pardalis Del-Moral-Flores, Angulo, M. I. Bussing & W. A. Bussing, 2015 (Leopard round stingray) [1][2]
- †Urobatis sloani Blainville, 1816
- Urobatis tumbesensis Chirichigno F. & McEachran, 1979 (Tumbes round stingray)
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References
- 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.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- "Leopard Round Stingray ~ Urobatis pardalis".
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