Pastinachus
Pastinachus is a genus of stingrays in the family Dasyatidae. This genus was long held to be monotypic, containing only the cowtail stingray (P. sephen). Recent studies of Indo-Pacific stingrays have revealed that there are in fact a number of different species of Pastinachus, and that some former junior synonyms may need to be resurrected.[1]
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Cowtail stingray (P. sephen) | |
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Genus: | Pastinachus Rüppell, 1829 |
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Species
- Pastinachus ater (W. J. Macleay, 1883) (Broad cowtail stingray)
- Pastinachus gracilicaudus Last & Manjaji-Matsumoto, 2010 (Narrow cowtail stingray)
- Pastinachus sephen (Forsskål, 1775) (Cowtail stingray)
- Pastinachus solocirostris Last, Manjaji & Yearsley, 2005 (Roughnose cowtail stingray)
- Pastinachus stellurostris Last, Fahmi & Naylor, 2010 (Starrynose cowtail stingray)
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Pastinachus in FishBase. February 2011 version.
- Last, P.R.; Manjaji, B.M. & Yearsley, G.K. (2005). "Pastinachus solocirostris sp. nov., a new species of Stingray (Elasmobranchii: Myliobatiformes) from the Indo–Malay Archipelago". Zootaxa. 1040: 1–16.
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