Dasyatis

Summary

Dasyatis (Greek δασύς dasýs meaning rough or dense and βατίς batís meaning skate) is a genus of stingray in the family Dasyatidae that is native to the Atlantic, including the Mediterranean. In a 2016 taxonomic revision, many of the species formerly assigned to Dasyatis were reassigned to other genera (Bathytoshia, Fontitrygon, Hemitrygon, Hypanus, Megatrygon and Telatrygon).[2]

Dasyatis
Temporal range: 136.4–0 Ma[1] Early Cenomanian to Present
Common stingray (D. pastinaca)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Superorder: Batoidea
Order: Myliobatiformes
Family: Dasyatidae
Subfamily: Dasyatinae
Genus: Dasyatis
Rafinesque, 1810
Type species
Dasyatis ujo
Rafinesque, 1810
Synonyms
  • Amphotistius Garman, 1913
  • Anacanthus Cuvier (ex Ehrenberg), 1829
  • Brachioptera Gratzianov, 1906
  • Dasybatus Klein, 1775
  • Pastinaca Swainson, 1838
  • Trygon Cuvier (ex Adanson), 1816
  • Uroxis Rafinesque, 1810

Species edit

Synonyms

Fossil species, data from Fossilworks[3]

  • Dasyatis africana Arambourg, 1948[4] or Dartevelle and Casier, 1959
  • Dasyatis borodini
  • Dasyatis branisai
  • Dasyatis carolinensis
  • Dasyatis cavernosa
  • Dasyatis charlisae
  • Dasyatis concavifoveus
  • Dasyatis dezignoi
  • Dasyatis gigas
  • Dasyatis hexagonalis
  • Dasyatis molassicus
  • Dasyatis molinoensis
  • Dasyatis probsti
  • Dasyatis rafinesquei
  • Dasyatis rugosa
  • Dasyatis russelli
  • Dasyatis schaefferi
  • Dasyatis serralheiroi
  • Dasyatis sessaoensis
  • Dasyatis strangulata
  • Dasyatis tetraedra
  • Dasyatis vicaryi
  • Dasyatis wochadunensis

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Chondrichthyes entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10.
  2. ^ Last, P.R.; Naylor, G.J.; Manjaji-Matsumoto, B.M. (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. PMID 27470808.
  3. ^ "Dasyatis Rafinesque 1810 (ray)". Fossilworks. Gateway to the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  4. ^ Feibel, C.S. (1993). "Freshwater stingrays from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Turkana Basin, Kenya and Ethiopia". Lethaia. 26 (4): 359–366. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1993.tb01542.x.