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Pteroplatytrygon violacea
Description
Pteroplatytrygon violacea (Bonaparte, 1832).
Pelagic Stingray. To at least 80 cm (31.4 in) DW (Weigman 2016) in marine waters, and to 96 cm (37.8 in) DW in captivity (Mollet et al. 2002); 163 cm (64.2 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); British Columbia (Peden and Jamieson 1988) to Baja California to central Chile (Ebert 2003), and Islas Galápagos (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Depth: surface to 381 m (1,250 ft) over deep water (min.: Love et al. 2005; max.: Mundy 2005).
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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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Dasyatidae
- Genus
- Pteroplatytrygon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Myliobatiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Bonaparte
- Species
- violacea
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pteroplatytrygon violacea (Bonaparte, 1832) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Mollet, H. F., Ezcurra, J. M. & O'Sullivan, J. B. (2002) Captive biology of the pelagic stingray, Dasyatis violacea (Bonaparte, 1832). Marine and Freshwater Research, 53, 531 - 541. https: // doi. org. 10.1071 / MF 01074
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Savinykh, V. F. (1998) Nekton composition of near-surface waters of the subarctic front zone in the northwest part of the Pacific Ocean according to the data of drift-net catches. Journal of Ichthyology, 38, 18 - 27.
- Peden, A. E. & Jamieson, G. S. (1988) New distributional records of marine fishes off Washington, British Columbia and Alaska. Canadian Field-Naturalist, 102, 491 - 494.
- Ebert, D. A. (2003) Sharks, Rays, and Chimaeras of California. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Love, M. S., Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A. & Thorsteinson, L. K. (2005) Resource inventory of marine and estuarine fishes of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Arctic Ocean species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon Border. United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Biological Resources Divition, Seattle, OCS Study MMS 2005 - 030 and USGS / NBII 2005 - 001.
- Mundy, B. C. (2005) Checklist of the Fishes of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.