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Himantura

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Himantura is a genus of stingray in the family Dasyatidae that is native to the Indo-Pacific. In a 2016 taxonomic revision, many of the species formerly assigned to Himantura were reassigned to other genera (Brevitrygon, Fluvitrygon, Maculabatis, Pateobatis, Styracura and Urogymnus).

Species

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GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassElasmobranchii
  4. OrderMyliobatiformes
  5. FamilyDasyatidae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
Observations recorded4,878

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
146
With media
11
Family
Dasyatidae
Collections
USNM, CAS, LSUMZ
Recorded in
Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Palau

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Encyclopedic overview

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Himantura is a genus of stingray in the family Dasyatidae that is native to the Indo-Pacific. In a 2016 taxonomic revision, many of the species formerly assigned to Himantura were reassigned to other genera (Brevitrygon, Fluvitrygon, Maculabatis, Pateobatis, Styracura and Urogymnus).

==Species== Twelve extant species are currently recognized as valid, formerly four or five species. Himantura alcockii (Annandale, 1909) (Pale-spot whip ray) Himantura australis (Last, White & Naylor, 2016) (Australian whipray) Himantura fava (Annandale, 1909) (Honeycomb whipray) Himantura fluviatilis (Hamilton, 1822) (Ganges whipray) Himantura krempfi (Chabanaud, 1923) (Marbled freshwater whip ray) Himantura leoparda (Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2008) (Leopard whipray) Himantura marginata (Blyth, 1860) (Blackedge whipray) Himantura menoni (Sahni & Mehrotra, 1981) Himantura microphthalma (J. T. F. Chen, 1948) (Smalleye whip ray) Himantura pareh (Bleeker, 1852) Himantura souarfortuna (Adnet et al., 2020) Himantura tutul (Borsa, Durand, K. N. Shen, Arlyza, Solihin & Berrebi, 2013) (Fine-spotted leopard whipray) Himantura uarnak (J. F. Gmelin, 1789) (Reticulate whipray) Himantura undulata (Bleeker, 1852) (Honeycomb whipray)

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Himantura” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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