Maculabatis randalli

Arabian Banded Whipray
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Superorder:	Batoidea
Order:	Myliobatiformes
Family:	Dasyatidae
Genus:	Maculabatis
Species:	M. randalli
Binomial name
	Maculabatis randalli; (Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & A. B. M. Moore, 2012)
Synonyms
	Himantura randalli Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & Moore, 2012;

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Maculabatis randalli, the Arabian banded whipray, is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae.^[1] It is native to the Persian Gulf. It reaches a length of 41.2 cm (16.2 in). ^[2]

Etymology

The ray is named in honor of John E. Randall (1924–2020), of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu.^[3]

References

^ Last, P.R., B.M. Manjaji-Matsumoto and A.B.M. Moore, 2012. Himantura randalli sp. nov., a new whipray (Myliobatoidea: Dasyatidae) from the Persian Gulf. Zootaxa 3327:20–32.
^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Maculabatis randalli" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order MYLIOBATIFORMES (Stingrays)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 13 February 2022.

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[1] Last, P.R., B.M. Manjaji-Matsumoto and A.B.M. Moore, 2012. Himantura randalli sp. nov., a new whipray (Myliobatoidea: Dasyatidae) from the Persian Gulf. Zootaxa 3327:20–32.

[2] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Maculabatis randalli" in FishBase. February 2015 version.

[ETYFish-3] Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order MYLIOBATIFORMES (Stingrays)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 13 February 2022.

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