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Pastinachus
Sign in to savePastinachus is a genus of stingrays in the family Dasyatidae. This genus was long held to be monotypic, containing only the cowtail stingray (P. sephen). Recent studies of Indo-Pacific stingrays have revealed that there are in fact a number of different species of Pastinachus, and that some former junior synonyms may need to be resurrected.
Species
ツカエイ属
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassElasmobranchii
- OrderMyliobatiformes
- FamilyDasyatidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 39
- Family
- Dasyatidae
- Collections
- FHSM, TCWC, CSIRO
- Recorded in
- United States, Indonesia, Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Dasyatidae
- Image
- Pastinachus sephen2.jpg
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- Pastinachus
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Pastinachus
- taxon name
- Pastinachus
- taxonomic type
- cowtail stingray
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Pastinachus is a genus of stingrays in the family Dasyatidae. This genus was long held to be monotypic, containing only the cowtail stingray (P. sephen). Recent studies of Indo-Pacific stingrays have revealed that there are in fact a number of different species of Pastinachus, and that some former junior synonyms may need to be resurrected.
==Species== Pastinachus ater (W. J. Macleay, 1883) (Broad cowtail stingray) Pastinachus gracilicaudus Last & Manjaji-Matsumoto, 2010 (Narrow cowtail stingray) Pastinachus sephen (Forsskål, 1775) (Cowtail stingray) Pastinachus solocirostris Last, Manjaji & Yearsley, 2005 (Roughnose cowtail stingray) Pastinachus stellurostris Last, Fahmi & Naylor, 2010 (Starrynose cowtail stingray)
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