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Such users may discuss changes, request unprotection, or create an account. | The short-tail stingray, Dasyatis brevicaudata, also known as a bull ray or smooth stingray, is a stingray of the family Dasyatidae, found on the continental shelf in the Indian Ocean, and around temperate and subtropical coasts of Australia and New Zealand, at depths of up to 470 m. Its length is up to 430 cm (14 ft), and it is reputed to be the largest stingray in the world, weighing more than 350 kg (771 lbs). Image File history File links Padlock. ...
Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ...
Phyla Subregnum Parazoa Porifera (sponges) Subregnum Agnotozoa Placozoa (trichoplax) Orthonectida (orthonectids) Rhombozoa (dicyemids) Subregnum Eumetazoa Radiata (unranked) (radial symmetry) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anemones) Bilateria (unranked) (bilateral symmetry) Acoelomorpha (basal) Orthonectida (parasitic to flatworms, echinoderms, etc. ...
Typical Classes Subphylum Urochordata - Tunicatas Ascidiacea Thaliacea Larvacea Subphylum Cephalochordata - Lancelets Subphylum Myxini - Hagfishes Subphylum Vertebrata - Vertebrates Petromyzontida - Lampreys Placodermi (extinct) Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes Acanthodii (extinct) Actinopterygii - Ray-finned fishes Actinistia - Coelacanths Dipnoi - Lungfishes Amphibia - Amphibians Reptilia - Reptiles Aves - Birds Mammalia - Mammals Chordates (phylum Chordata) include the vertebrates, together with...
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. ...
In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ...
For other uses, see Stingray (disambiguation). ...
In biological classification, family (Latin: familia, plural familiae) is 1) a rank or 2) a taxon in that rank. ...
Genera Dasyatis Himantura Pastinachus Pteroplatytrygon Taeniura Urogymnus Stingrays are rays in the family Dasyatidae. ...
Sediment Rock Mantle The continental shelf is the extended perimeter of each continent, which is covered during interglacial periods such as the current epoch by relatively shallow seas (known as shelf seas) andbbccvcnccccccccccccccccccccccccvvvvvvvvvvvvvvcggggggggggggggggyutu7ti8yukiyuiyutuiyuiytui gulfs. ...
The short-tail stingray is an ovoviviparous and is large and plain with a bluntly angular snout and pectoral disc with round tips, a thick-based tail shorter than the body, and with a small upper and a long lower caudal finfold, the lower not reaching the tail tip. The tail ends in a vertically flattened fin-like tip. The disc is smooth except for a large, slender thorn on the tail in front of the stings. There are often 2 stings, the front one small, the rear one considerably larger, which bear toxin glands. Ovoviviparous animals develop within eggs that remain within the mother up until they hatch or are about to. ...
Its coloration is grey-brown or bluish-grey dorsally with a row of small, pale blue spots at each pectoral fin base, and white ventrally.
They are generally found on soft bottoms and feeds on crabs, mantis shrimps, bivalves, polychaetes, crustaceans and conger eels. Its teeth are flattened and plate-like. Supfamilies See text Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short tail (Greek: brachy = short, ura = tail), or where the abdomen is entirely hidden under the thorax. ...
Families Superfamily Bathysquillidoidea Family Bathysquillidae Family Indosquillidae Superfamily Erythrosquilloidea Family Erythrosquillidae Superfamily Gonodactyloidea Family Alainosquillidae Family Eurysquillidae Family Gonodactylidae Family Hemisquillidae Family Odontodactylidae Family Protosquillidae Family Pseudosquillidae Family Takuidae Superfamily Lysiosquilloidea Family Coronididae Family Heterosquillidae Family Lysiosquillidae Family Nannosquillidae Family Tetrasquillidae Superfamily Squilloidea Family Harpiosquillidae Family Squillidae Superfamily uncertain Family...
Orders Subclass Protobranchia Solemyoida Nuculoida Subclass Pteriomorphia - oysters Arcoida Mytiloida Pterioida Subclass Paleoheterodonta - mussels Trigoinoida Unionoida Subclass Heterodonta - clams, zebra mussels Veneroida Myoida Subclass Anomalosdesmata Pholadomyoida Animals of the Class Bivalvia are known as bivalves because they typically have two-part shells, with both parts being more or less symmetrical. ...
Orders Amphinomida Capitellida Chaetopterida Cirratulida Cossurida Ctenodrillidae Eunicida Flabelligerida Magelonida Myzostomida Nerillida Opheliida Orbiniida Orweniida Phyllodocida Pisionidae Polygordiida Protodrilida Psammodrilidae Sabellida Spionida Spintheridae Sternaspida Terebellida Tomopteris from plankton The Polychaeta or Polychaetes are a class of annelid worms, generally marine, with a pair of fleshy protrusions on each body segment...
Classes Remipedia Cephalocarida Branchiopoda Ostracoda Maxillopoda Malacostraca The crustaceans (Crustacea) are a large group of arthropods (55,000 species), usually treated as a subphylum. ...
Conger or conger eel is a vernacular term used of a number of different species of fish, mostly eels of the family Congridae, and especially the genus Conger. ...
Tail
It frequently raises its tail with barb in a scorpion-like fashion when approached. Though it can inflict severe wounds, it is considered more inquisitive than aggressive. Even being stung is generally a minor injury and fewer than twenty people have ever been killed by a stingray in modern history. The best known case of a fatal wound was that suffered by Steve Irwin, of the television program Crocodile Hunter, who died after being stung in the heart by a bull ray on September 4, 2006. A Ring-tailed Lemur For other uses, see Tail (disambiguation). ...
The word barb can have many meanings: Look up barb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Superfamilies Pseudochactoidea Buthoidea Chaeriloidea Chactoidea Iuroidea Scorpionoidea See classification for families. ...
Superficial bullet wounds A wound is type of physical trauma wherein the skin is torn, cut or punctured (an open wound), or where blunt force trauma causes a contusion (a closed wound). ...
Stephen Robert Steve Irwin (February 22, 1962 – September 4, 2006) was an Australian naturalist and television personality. ...
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See also  A large group off the coast of New Zealand. Binomial name Dasyatis thetidis Ogilby, 1899 The thorntail stingray, black stingray or longtail stingray, Dasyatis thetidis, is a stingray of the family Dasyatidae, found in estuaries and lagoons and around reefs in the Indian Ocean, and around southern Australia, and New Zealand, at depths of up to 440 m. ...
Video - Chasing a Bull Ray
- Video clip of D.Brevicaudata High Res or Low Res
References - Dasyatis brevicaudata. FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. May 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
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1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
External links - D.Brevicaudata on the Australian Museum website
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