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Encyclopedia > Bluespotted stingray
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Blue stingray

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Rajiformes
Family: Dasyatidae
Genus: Dasyatis
Species: D. kuhlii
Binomial name
Dasyatis kuhlii
(Müller & Henle, 1841)

Bluespotted stingray, (Dasyatis kuhlii) also known as Kuhl's Stingray is a stingray. It is light green with blue spots. Their disk width hovers around 67 cm. [1] Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 575 pixel Image in higher resolution (1024 × 736 pixel, file size: 228 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Bluespotted stingray Metadata... Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. ... Digimon, the only known animals. ... Typical Classes See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ... Subclasses and Orders See text. ... Superorders Galeomorpha Batoidea Selachimorpha Elasmobranchii is the subclass of cartilaginous fishes that includes skates, rays and sharks. ... Families Anacanthobatidae Dasyatidae Gymnuridae Hexatrygonidae Myliobatidae Plesiobatidae Potamotrygonidae Rajidae Rhinobatidae Urolophidae Rajiformes is the order of true rays and skates, flat-bodied cartilaginous fishes related to sharks. ... Genera Dasyatis Himantura Pastinachus Pteroplatytrygon Taeniura Urogymnus Stingrays are rays in the family Dasyatidae. ... Dasyatis is the genus of the currently accepted scientific name derived from the Greek word dasys meaning rough or dense and batus meaning shark. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Genera Dasyatis Himantura Pastinachus Pteroplatytrygon Taeniura Urogymnus See text for species. ...

Bluespotted Stingray, Papua New Guinea
Bluespotted Stingray, Papua New Guinea

Image File history File links 1549_aquaimages. ... Image File history File links 1549_aquaimages. ...

References

  1. ^ (2005) Reef and Shore Fishes of the South Pacific: New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands, 18. 

External Links

  • Bluespoted Ray Photo Gallery (Red Sea)


 

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