Taxon Description (Wikipedia)
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Chondrichthyes
| subclassis = Elasmobranchii
| ordo = Myliobatiformes
| familia =
Dasyatidae
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision =
Dasyatis
Himantura
Pastinachus
Pteroplatytrygon
Taeniura
Urogymnus
}}
The
stingrays are a family– rays, cartilaginous fishes related to sharks. They are common in coastal tropical and subtropical marine waters throughout the world, but the family also includes species found in warmer temperate oceans such as
Dasyatis thetidis, and species entirely restricted to fresh water such as
D. laosensis and
Himantura chaophraya. With the exception of
Pteroplatytrygon violacea, all dasyatids are demersal....
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