''Dasyatis'' (

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and βατίς ''batís'' meaning

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stingray Stingrays are a group of sea Batoidea, rays, a type of cartilaginous fish. They are classified in the suborder Myliobatoidei of the order Myliobatiformes and consist of eight families: Hexatrygonidae (sixgill stingray), Plesiobatidae (deepwate ...

in the

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Dasyatidae that is native to the Atlantic, including the

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. In a 2016

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revision, many of the species formerly assigned to ''Dasyatis'' were reassigned to other genera (''

Bathytoshia ''Bathytoshia'' is a genus of stingrays in the family (biology), 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 gen ...

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Fontitrygon ''Fontitrygon'' is a genus of stingrays in the family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the ba ...

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Hemitrygon ''Hemitrygon'' is a genus of stingrays in the family Dasyatidae from marine, brackish and freshwater habitats in the central Indo-Pacific and northwest Pacific regions. The genus was formerly regarded as a junior synonym of the genus '' Dasyatis ...

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Hypanus ''Hypanus'' is a genus of stingrays in the family Dasyatidae from warmer parts of the East Pacific and Atlantic, including the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. The genus was previous regarded as a junior synonym of the genus ''Dasyatis''. Species ...

'', '' Megatrygon'' and ''

Telatrygon ''Telatrygon'' is a genus of stingrays in the family Dasyatidae from the central Indo-Pacific. Its species were formerly contained within the genus ''Dasyatis''. Species The placement of ''T. acutirostra'' within the genus is provisional pendin ...

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Species

*'' Dasyatis chrysonota''

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, 1828 (blue stingray) *'' Dasyatis gigantea'' (

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, 1930) (giant stumptail stingray) *'' Dasyatis hypostigma'' H. R. S. Santos & M. R. de Carvalho, 2004 (groovebelly stingray) *''

Dasyatis marmorata ''Dasyatis marmorata'', the marbled stingray, is a species of stingray of the family Dasyatidae. Its geographic range covers the central and south-eastern Atlantic, from Morocco to South Africa. It is also present in the coastal waters of southe ...

Steindachner Franz Steindachner (11 November 1834 in Vienna – 10 December 1919 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He published over 200 papers on fishes and over 50 papers on reptiles and amphibians. Steindachner descri ...

, 1892 (marbled stingray) *''

Dasyatis pastinaca The common stingray (''Dasyatis pastinaca'') is a species of stingray in the family (biology), family Dasyatidae, found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and Black Seas. It typically inhabits sandy or mud ...

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...

1758 Events January–March * January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...

(common stingray) *'' Dasyatis tortonesei'' Capapé, 1975 (Tortonese's stingray) Fossil species, data from Fossilworks

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