Spotted round ray
| Spotted round ray | |
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| Spotted round ray in the Gulf of California | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | Myliobatiformes |
| Family: | Urotrygonidae |
| Genus: | Urobatis |
| Species: | U. maculatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Urobatis maculatus (Garman, 1913) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Urolophus maculatus Garman, 1913 | |
Urobatis maculatus also known as the Spotted round ray or Cortez round stingray is a species of round ray endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitats are shallow seas, subtidal aquatic beds, coral reefs, estuarine waters, intertidal marshes, and coastal saline lagoons. This species reaches a length of 42 centimetres (17 in) TL.[2] This species is placed in the genus Urobatis.[3]
References
- ↑ Bizzarro, J.J. (2006): Urobatis maculatus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Urolophus maculatus" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ↑ Moral-Flores, L.F.D., Angulo, A., López, M.I. & Bussing, W.A. (2015). "A new species of Urobatis (Myliobatiformes: Urotrygonidae) from the tropical Eastern Pacific". Revista de Biologia Tropical. 63 (2): 501–514. doi:10.15517/rbt.v63i2.15746.
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