American round stingray
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California round stingray ( Urobatis halleri ) |
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| McEachran , Dunn & Miyake , 1996 |
The American round stingrays (Urotrygonidae) are a family of rays (Batoidea). They live on the continental shelf on both sides of the American double continent in tropical and subtropical regions of the western Atlantic and the eastern Pacific .
features
The body disc always has a width of less than 1.3 times the body length. The tail is slender and as long as the body. It has one or more venomous stings and ends in a caudal fin. Dorsal fins are missing. The small American round stingrays are 12 to 76 centimeters long.
Systematics
There are two genera with 20 species. Both genera were formerly part of the round stingrays (Urolophidae):
Jamaican stingray ( Urobatis jamaicensis )
- Genus Urobatis Garman, 1913
- Urobatis concentricus Osburn & Nichols, 1916
- California round stingray ( Urobatis halleri ) (Cooper, 1863)
- Jamaican stingray ( Urobatis jamaicensis ) (Cuvier, 1816)
- Urobatis maculatus Garman, 1913
- Urobatis marmoratus (Philippi, 1893)
- Urobatis pardalis Moral-Flores et al., 2015
- Urobatis tumbesensis (Chirichigno F. & McEachran, 1979)
- Genus Urotrygon Gill, 1863
- Urotrygon aspidura (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882)
- Urotrygon caudispinosus Hildebrand, 1946
- Urotrygon chilensis (Günther, 1872)
- Urotrygon cimar López S. & Bussing, 1998
- Urotrygon microphthalmum Delsman, 1941
- Urotrygon munda Gill, 1863
- Urotrygon nana Miyake & McEachran, 1988
- Urotrygon peruanus Hildebrand, 1946
- Urotrygon reticulata Miyake & McEachran, 1988
- Urotrygon rogersi (Jordan & Starks in Jordan, 1895)
- Urotrygon serrula Hildebrand, 1946
- Urotrygon simulatrix Miyake & McEachran, 1988
- Urotrygon venezuelae Schultz, 1949
literature
- Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7
Web links
Commons : Urotrygonidae - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Urotrygonidae on Fishbase.org (English)