Whitespotted whipray

The whitespotted whipray or sharpnose stingray (Maculabatis gerrardi) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae. It is found in coastal regions including estuaries, in the Indo-Pacific, and has also been recorded in the Ganges River. It reaches a maximum length of 2 metres (6½ ft). As presently defined, it is probably a species complex.[2]

Whitespotted whipray
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Myliobatiformes
Family: Dasyatidae
Genus: Maculabatis
Species:
M. gerrardi
Binomial name
Maculabatis gerrardi
(Gray, 1851)
Synonyms
  • Trygon gerrardi J. E. Gray, 1851
  • Trygon macrurus Bleeker, 1852
  • Dasyatis gerrardi (Gray, 1851)
  • Himantura gerrardi (Gray, 1851)
  • Himantura gerrardii (Gray, 1851)
  • Trygon liocephalus]] Klunzinger, 1871

Etymology

The Stingray is named in honor of Edward Gerrard (1810-1910), a taxidermist at the British Museum of Natural History, who with his shark and ray identifications assisted Gray.[3]

References
  1. Sherman, C.S., Ali, M., Bin Ali, A., Bineesh, K.K., Derrick, D., Dharmadi, Elhassan, I., Fahmi, Fernando, D., Haque, A.B., Jabado, R.W., Maung, A., Seyha, L., Spaet, J., Tanay, D., Utzurrum, J.A.T., Valinassab, T., Vo, V.Q. & Yuneni, R.R. (2020). "Maculabatis gerrardi". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2020: e.T161566A175219648.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2008). "Maculabatis gerrardi" in FishBase. October 2008 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order MYLIOBATIFORMES (Stingrays)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  • Last, P.R. and L.J.V. Compagno, 1999. Dasyatididae. Stingrays. p. 1479-1505. In K.E. Carpenter and V.H. Niem (eds.) FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Vol. 3. Batoid fishes, chimaeras and bony fishes part 1 (Elopidae to Linophrynidae). FAO, Rome.
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