Bathytoshia
| Bathytoshia | |
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| B. lata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Myliobatiformes |
| Family: | Dasyatidae |
| Subfamily: | Dasyatinae |
| Genus: | Bathytoshia Whitley, 1933 |
| Type species | |
| Dasyatis thetidis Ogilby, 1899
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Bathytoshia is a genus of stingrays in the family Dasyatidae found worldwide in tropical and warm temperate oceans (except the East Pacific and tropical Indian Ocean). It was formerly regarded as a junior synonym of the genus Dasyatis.[1]
Species
[edit]Molecular phylogenetic data indicate that several previously recognized Dasyatis species are in fact populations of wider-ranging Bathytoshia species.
| Image | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Bathytoshia brevicaudata (F. W. Hutton, 1875) (including Dasyatis matsubarai and D. multispinosa) | from southern Africa to Hawaii |
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Bathytoshia centroura (Mitchill, 1815) | northwestern and southwestern Atlantic Ocean |
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Bathytoshia lata (Garman, 1880) (including D. thetidis, D. ushiei, and eastern Atlantic B. centroura) | southern Africa, |
References
[edit]- ^ Last, P.R.; Naylor, G.J.; Manjaji-Matsumoto, B.M. (2016). "A revised classification of the family Dasyatidae (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes) based on new morphological and molecular insights". Zootaxa. 4139 (3): 345–368. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4139.3.2. PMID 27470808.