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Urotrygon munda Gill 1863

Description

Urotrygon munda Gill, 1863.

Spiny Round Ray or Spiny Stingray. To 53.8 cm (21.2 in) TL (Flores-Ortega et al. 2020), 28.8 cm (11.3 in) DW (Weigman 2016). About Punta Eugenia, central Baja California (Robertson and Allen 2015), and Gulf of California (Miyake and McEachran 1986) to Callao, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998). Benthic; depth: 1–80 m (3–262 ft) (min.: Weigmann 2016; max.: Flores-Ortega et al. 2011).

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

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  • Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
  • Miyake, T. & McEachran, J. D. (1986) Taxonomy of the stingray genus Urotrygon (Myliobatiformes: Urolophidae): preliminary results based on external morphology. In: Indo-Pacific Fish Biology. Proceedings of the 2 nd International Conference on Indo-Pacific Fishes. Ichthyological Society of Japan, Tokyo, pp. 291 - 302.
  • Chirichigno, F. N. & Velez D, J. (1998) Clave para identificaticar los peces marinos del Peru (segunda edicion, revisada y actualizada). Instituto de Mar de Peru Publicacion Especial.
  • Weigmann, S. (2016) Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeographical diversity. Journal of Fish Biology, 88, 837 - 1037. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jfb. 12874
  • Flores-Ortega, J. R., Godinez-Dominguez, E., Gonzalez-Sanson, G., Rojo-Vazquez, J. A., Corgos, A. & Morales-Jauregui, M. Y. (2011) Feeding habits of three round stingrays (Rajiformes: Urotrygonidae) in the central Mexican Pacific. Ciencias Marinas, 37, 279 - 292. https: // doi. org / 10.7773 / cm. v 37 i 3.1871