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Taxon:
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Dasyatidae
Jordan & Gilbert, 1879
- whiptail stingrays
(fish)
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Entity:
Myliobatiformes (Order) - stingrays
..Aetobatidae (Family) - pelagic eagle rays
..†Asterotrygon (Genus)
..Gymnuridae (Family) - butterfly rays
..Hexatrygonidae (Family) - sixgill stingrays
..Mobulidae (Family) - mantas
..Myliobatidae (Family) - eagle rays
..Plesiobatidae (Family) - deepwater stingrays
..Potamotrygonidae (Family) - neotropical stingrays
..Rhinopteridae (Family) - cownose rays
..†Rhombodontidae (Family)
..Urolophidae (Family) - round stingrays
..Urotrygonidae (Family) - American round stingrays
..Zanobatidae (Family) - panrays
..Dasyatidae (Family) - whiptail stingrays
....Dasyatinae (Subfamily) - stingrays
....Hypolophinae (Subfamily) - cowtail stingrays
....Neotrygoninae (Subfamily) - shortsnout stingrays
....Urogymninae (Subfamily) - whiprays
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
Jordan & Gilbert, 1879, orth. corr.
Original name & rank
:
Jordan & Gilbert, 1879: 386. ["
Dasybatidae
"].
Subsequent spelling
:
Jordan, 1888: 22.
Attributes
Imperfect name (orth. inval.: orth. imperf.) [ICZN]
Ref:
G.C. Steyskal, 1980.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.
93
(1)
: 171. [false].
Justified emendation (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Art. 33.2.2]
Ref:
R. van der Laan et al. 2014.
Zootaxa
3882
(2)
: 25 ("corrected").
Correct [original] spelling [ICZN, 1999: Art. 29.3.1.1 (fam.: -id-)]
Ref:
S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present.
Syst. Nat. 2000
: 6 May 2024.
Types
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]
:
Dasyatinae
(Subfamily)
Jordan & Gilbert, 1879
Ref:
R. van der Laan et al. (eds.), 2021
: (4 Feb 2025).
[inferred]
Type
:
Dasyatis
(Genus)
Rafinesque, 1810
Ref:
R. Fricke et al. (eds.), 2021
: 9 Apr 2025; [<12 May 2025].
[inferred]
Variants
Former rank
:
Dasyatoidea
(Superfamily)
Jordan & Gilbert, 1879
Ref:
J.S. Nelson et al., 2016
: 90; 88.
[inferred]
Synonyms
Synonymous name
:
Trygonidae
(Family)
Müller & Henle, 1837
Ref:
D.S. Jordan, 1923
: 104.
Synonymous name
:
Trygonidae
(Family)
Müller & Henle, 1837
Ref:
J.S. Nelson et al., 2016
: 90.
Including
:
Dasybatidae
(Family)
Ref:
D.S. Jordan, 1923
: 104.
Including
:
†
Heliobatidae
(Family)
Ref:
J.S. Nelson et al., 2016
: 91.
[inferred]
Including
:
Pastinachinae
(Subfamily)
Roberts, 2007
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
pijlstaartroggen
Ref:
B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
whiptail stingrays
Ref:
J.S. Nelson et al., 2016
: 90; ECoF(4 Feb 2025).
:
stingrays
Ref:
W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998
: 2451.
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