Bathytoshia lata
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Bathytoshia lata is a species of stingray and lives near the coast of the islands of Hawaii .
features
Bathytoshia lata has a diamond-shaped pectoral fin disc that is a quarter wider than it is long, and the front sides of which are almost straight and meet at an obtuse angle, while the rear sides are strongly rounded. It reaches a pane width of a maximum of 1.5 m, but mostly more than 1 m, with a weight of up to 56 kg. The whip-like tail is at least twice as long as the disc, and carries a single venomous sting near the base. The top is olive or brown, the bottom is white.
Way of life
The ray lives above sandy or muddy bottom and in reefs, mostly at depths of more than 15 m, off Maui , Kāne'ohe Bay and Oʻahu . During the day it mostly spends buried in the ground, at night it mainly hunts ground-dwelling crustaceans , but also poly-bristle and bony fish . He is ovoviviparous . It is classified as LC (non-hazardous) by the IUCN .
Systematics
The ray species was described in 1880 by the American ichthyologist Samuel Garman under the scientific name Trygon lata , later assigned to the genus Dasyatis . When the Dasyatidae were revised in mid-2016 , the species was placed in the genus Bathytoshia . Dasyatis thetidis (Ogilby, 1899) is another synonym of Bathytoshia lata .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Last, PR, Naylor, GJP & Manjaji-Matsumoto, BM (2016): A revised classification of the family Dasyatidae (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes) based on new morphological and molecular insights. Zootaxa , 4139 (3): 345-368. doi: 10.11646 / zootaxa.4139.3.2
Web links
- Bathytoshia lata on Fishbase.org (English)
- Bathytoshia lata on the IUCN Red List