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The smalleye stingray is widely but possibly discontinuously distributed in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, having been first tagged in Tofo in Mozambique, [6] and reported in Malé in the Maldives, the coasts of India and Bangladesh, the Gulf of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, the Arafura Sea, and possibly the Philippines.
The smalleyed round stingray (Urotrygon microphthalmum) is a species of fish in the family Urotrygonidae. It is found in Brazil , French Guiana , Guyana , Suriname , and Venezuela . Its natural habitats are open seas and shallow seas.
The bizarre Lessiniabatis of Early Eocene Italy. Permineralized stingray teeth have been found in sedimentary deposits around the world as far back as the Early Cretaceous.The oldest known stingray taxon is "Dasyatis" speetonensis from the Hauterivian of England, whose teeth most closely resemble that of the extant sixgill stingray (Hexatrygon).
Batomorphi is a clade of cartilaginous fishes, commonly known as rays, this taxon is also known as the superorder Batoidea, but the 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies it as the division Batomorphi. [2]
A bluespotted ribbontail ray in Komodo National Park, Indonesia. The bluespotted ribbontail ray was originally described as Raja lymma by Swedish naturalist Peter Forsskål, in his 1775 Descriptiones Animalium quae in itinere ad maris australis terras per annos 1772, 1773, et 1774 suscepto collegit, observavit, et delineavit Joannes Reinlioldus Forster, etc., curante Henrico Lichtenstein. [2]
HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A stingray that got pregnant at a North Carolina aquarium this winter despite not having shared a tank with a male of her species for many years has died. The Aquarium and Shark Lab in Hendersonville said on Facebook late Sunday that the stingray, Charlotte, died after getting a rare reproductive disease.
Charlotte, the stingray that for a time was mysteriously pregnant, has died, according to the Aquarium & Shark Lab by Team ECCO in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Stingray that sparked curiosity ...
The common stingray (Dasyatis pastinaca) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean and Black Seas. It typically inhabits sandy or muddy habitats in coastal waters shallower than 60 m (200 ft), often burying itself in sediment.