Himantura
| Himantura | |
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| Mangrove whipray (H. granulata) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Myliobatiformes |
| Family: | Dasyatidae |
| Genus: | Himantura Müller & Henle, 1837 |
| Type species | |
| Raja sephen uarnak Forsskål, 1775 |
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Himantura is a genus of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, commonly known as the whip rays. They are distinguished from other stingrays by a long, slender tail without tail folds. Himantura species are very morphologically diverse and the genus may be polyphyletic. Most species are found in the western Pacific and the Indian Ocean.[1]
Species
- Pale-spot whip ray, Himantura alcockii (Annandale, 1909)
- Black-spotted whipray, Himantura astra Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & Pogonoski, 2008
- Bleeker's whipray, Himantura bleekeri (Blyth, 1860)
- Giant freshwater stingray, Himantura chaophraya Monkolprasit & Roberts, 1990
- Freshwater whipray, Himantura dalyensis, Last & Manjaji-Matsumoto, 2008
- Dragon stingray, Himantura draco Compagno & Heemstra, 1984
- Pink whipray, Himantura fai Jordan & Seale, 1906
- Ganges stingray, Himantura fluviatilis (Hamilton, 1822)
- Sharpnose stingray, Himantura gerrardi (Gray, 1851)
- Mangrove whipray, Himantura granulata (Macleay, 1883)
- Hortle's whipray, Himantura hortlei Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & Kailola, 2006
- Scaly whipray , Himantura imbricata (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
- Pointed-nose stingray, Himantura jenkinsii (Annandale, 1909)
- Kittipong's stingray, Himantura kittipongi Vidthayanon & Roberts, 2005
- Marbled freshwater whip ray, Himantura krempfi (Chabanaud, 1923)
- Leopard whipray, Himantura leoparda Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2008
- Tubemouth whipray, Himantura lobistoma Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2006
- Blackedge whipray, Himantura marginatus (Blyth, 1860)
- Smalleye whip ray, Himantura microphthalma (Chen, 1948)
- Marbled whipray, Himantura oxyrhyncha (Sauvage, 1878)
- Pacific chupare, Himantura pacifica (Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941)
- Himantura pareh (Bleeker, 1852)
- Round whip ray, Himantura pastinacoides (Bleeker, 1852)
- Chupare stingray, Himantura schmardae (Werner, 1904)
- White-edge freshwater whip ray, Himantura signifer Compagno & Roberts, 1982
- Tosh's whipray, Himantura toshi Whitley, 1939
- Whitenose whip ray, Himantura uarnacoides (Bleeker, 1852)
- Honeycomb stingray, Himantura uarnak (Forsskål, 1775)
- Bleeker's variegated whipray, Himantura undulata (Bleeker, 1852)
- Dwarf whipray, Himantura walga (Müller & Henle, 1841)
References
- ^ Compagno, L.J.V. and Roberts, T.R. (1982). "Freshwater stingrays (Dasyatidae) of Southeast Asia and New Guinea, with description of a new species of Himantura and reports of unidentified species". Environmental Biology of Fishes 7 (4): 321–339.
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