Dasyatidae Jordan & Gilbert 1879
Authors/Creators
- 1. Escuela de Biología, Museo de Zoología / Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ecología Tropical (CIBET) and Centro de
- 2. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, 480 Wilson Rd # 13, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA joel. t. betts @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6018 - 8995
- 3. Unidad de Gestión Técnica de Proyectos - Oficina de Relaciones Internacionales y de Cooperación Externa (ORICE / UGETEP),
- 4. Universidad Americana (UAM, Costado Noroeste Camino de Oriente, Managua, Nicaragua edgar. ecologica @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8148 - 3195
- 5. Department of Environment and Development, Zamorano Biodiversity Center. Zamorano University of Tegucigalpa, P. O. Box 93, Honduras evandenberghe @ zamorano. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7566 - 0415
- 6. Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH). Chicago, Illinois, United States of America delias @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4215 - 0384 cmcmahan @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2113 - 8554
Description
Family Dasyatidae Jordan & Gilbert 1879 (Fig. 2C). Whiptail Stingrays; Rayas Batonas, Chupares, Rayas de Espina, Rayas Látigo
Description: Body strongly depressed; anterior edge of the greatly enlarged pectoral fins attached to the sides of the head via the antorbital cartilage; up to 200 cm in length; disc not more than 1.3 times as broad as long; eyes and spiracles on dorsal surface; gill openings ventral; pelvic fins modified as copulatory organs in males; anal fin absent; tail long (distance from cloaca to tip much longer than disc width), very slender to whip-like, without dorsal fin but with one or more long, poisonous spines; caudal fin absent (Robertson & Allen 2015, Nelson et al. 2016). Distribution: Marine (continental and insular shelves and uppermost slopes, few species oceanic), brackish and freshwater; tropical to warm temperate, Atlantic (including the Mediterranean Sea), Indian and Pacific oceans (Nelson et al. 2016). One genus and one species in Nicaraguan freshwaters.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Jordan & Gilbert
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Myliobatiformes
- Family
- Dasyatidae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dasyatidae Jordan, 1879 sec. Angulo, Betts, González-Alemán, Castañeda, Berghe, Elías, Mcmahan & Matamoros, 2023
References
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: online information system. Version 2.0. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama´. Available from: https: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages (acccesed 18 February 2023)