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Urobatis

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Urobatis is a genus of the family Urotrygonidae. These rays live in Costa Rica, Mexico, the Bahamas, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Anguilla, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and the United States.

Species

Haller's Round Ray

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassElasmobranchii
  4. OrderMyliobatiformes
  5. FamilyUrotrygonidae
Habitatmarine
Observations3,151

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
27
Family
Urotrygonidae
Collections
SIO, CAS, UF, USNM, FMNH
Recorded in
Mexico, Panama, El Salvador, Ecuador

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Encyclopedic overview

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Urobatis is a genus of the family Urotrygonidae. These rays live in Costa Rica, Mexico, the Bahamas, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Anguilla, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and the United States.

==Species== There are currently seven recognized species in this genus: Urobatis concentricus R. C. Osburn & J. T. Nichols, 1916 (Bullseye round stingray) Urobatis halleri J. G. Cooper, 1863 (Round stingray) Urobatis jamaicensis G. Cuvier, 1816 (Yellow stingray) Urobatis maculatus Garman, 1913 (Spotted round ray) Urobatis marmoratus Philippi {Krumweide}, 1893 (Chilean round stingray) Urobatis molleni Hovestadt & Hovestadt-Euler, 2010 Urobatis pardalis Del-Moral-Flores, Angulo, M. I. Bussing & W. A. Bussing, 2015 (Leopard round stingray) †Urobatis sloani Blainville, 1816 Urobatis tumbesensis Chirichigno F. & McEachran, 1979 (Tumbes round stingray)

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