Maculabatis | |
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M. gerrardi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Superorder: | Batoidea |
Order: | Myliobatiformes |
Family: | Dasyatidae |
Subfamily: | Urogymninae |
Genus: |
Maculabatis Last, Naylor & Manjaji-Matsumoto, 2016 |
Type species | |
Trygon gerrardi
Gray, 1851
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Maculabatis is a genus of stingrays in the family Dasyatidae from the Indo-Pacific. Its species were formerly contained within the genus Himantura. [1]
The genus contains two groups, the "gerrardi-complex" containing spotted species and the "pastinacoides-complex" containing plain species.