Aetobatus narinari
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Aetobatus narinari (Euphrasen 1790) — Spotted Eagle Ray
Justification: ZMUC P.08719 (1), St. Croix, Feb., 1906; our own observations in addition to REEF (15/20).
Distribution: WA (BD, FL, GOM, BA, GA, VI, WC, nSA, sSA).
Remarks: Beatty (1944:178) noted "small specimens are often seen in the slightly brackish waters of Fairplain Stream."
This species has been considered to have a circumtropical distribution but recent studies using mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data have shown that this species is a complex of at least 2 or 3 species (White et al., 2010). The species apparently is absent from the Indo-West Pacific and preliminary data suggest that eastern Atlantic and eastern Pacific members of the Aetobat us narinari complex are also probably a different species.
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.3803.1.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4917823 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FE5AFFE80D7FFFADFFA6354AFFEDFF8C (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/B22B642B-9987-41AB-8792-0F35D2EAD945 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/026387900D6BFFB9FF3136CBFB3BFB36 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Myliobatidae
- Genus
- Aetobatus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Myliobatiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Euphrasen
- Species
- narinari
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Aetobatus narinari (Euphrasen, 1790) sec. Smith-Vaniz & Jelks, 2014
References
- Beatty, H. A. (1944) The fresh water fishes of St. Croix, V. I. The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico, 28 (3 / 4), 178 - 179.
- White, W. T., Last, P. R., Naylor, G. J. P. Jensen, K. & Caira, J. N. (2010) Clarification of Aetobatus ocellatus (Kuhl, 1823) as a valid species, and a comparison with Aetobatus narinari (Euphrasen, 1790) (Rajiformes: Myliobatidae) In: Last, P. J., White, W. T. & Pogonoski, J. J. (Eds.), Descriptions of new sharks and rays from Borneo. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper, 32, 141 - 164.