Dasyatis Rafinesque 1810 (whiptail stingray)

Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae

Synonyms: Alexandrinum Molin 1860, Heliobatis, Trygon Cuvier 1817

Parent taxon: Dasyatidae according to G. Guinot et al. 2023

See also Agassiz 1835, Balbino and Antunes 2006, Bryant 1989, Cappetta 1987, Casier 1946, Casier 1966, Chapman 1918, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Cvancara and Hoganson 1993, Davis 1888, de Beaufort 1926, Deraniyagala 1969, Dica et al. 1996, Eastman 1904, Ebersole et al. 2019, Hay 1902, Hoganson et al. 2019, Jaekel 1894, Jonet 1968, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Leidy 1873, Leriche 1926, Leriche 1942, Marramà et al. 2018, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Purdy et al. 2001, Rana et al. 2006, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015, Sepkoski 2002, Tabuce et al. 2005, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Underwood et al. 1999, Villafaña et al. 2020 and Woodward 1889

Sister taxa: Agabelus, Amphotistius, Anacanthus, Dasyatinae, Dasyatis dezignoi, Disceus, Discobatis, Discotrygon, Ellipesurus, Glikmania, Hemiptychodus, Hemitrygon, Hypolophites, Hypolophus, Neotrygon, Neotrygoninae, Palaeodasyatis, Paratrygon, Pastinaca, Pastinachus, Pteroplatytrygon, Rhachinotus, Sporetodus, Taeniura, Taeniurops, Tethytrygon, Trygonobatus, Urogymnus, Uroxis, Viperecucullus

Subtaxa: Dasyatis africana Dasyatis americana Dasyatis borodini Dasyatis branisai Dasyatis carolinensis Dasyatis cavernosa Dasyatis centroura Dasyatis charlisae Dasyatis concavifoveus Dasyatis datasi Dasyatis davisi Dasyatis duponti Dasyatis gigas Dasyatis hastata Dasyatis hexagonalis Dasyatis jaekeli Dasyatis margaritella Dasyatis martini Dasyatis molassicus Dasyatis molinoensis Dasyatis northdakotaensis Dasyatis pastinaca Dasyatis ponsi Dasyatis probsti Dasyatis rafinesquei Dasyatis rugosa Dasyatis russelli Dasyatis say Dasyatis schaefferi Dasyatis serralheiroi Dasyatis sessaoensis Dasyatis speetonensis Dasyatis strangulata Dasyatis sudrei Dasyatis tetraedra Dasyatis tricuspidatus Dasyatis ujo Dasyatis vicaryi Dasyatis wochadunensis Heliobatis radians Trygon alveolatus Trygon dux Trygon gazzolae Trygon muricatus Trygon oblongus Trygon rugosus Trygon sinhaleyus Trygon vorstmani Trygon zignii

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Type: Dasyatis ujo

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), Kenya (16), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), United States (7: California, Florida, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Kenya (1)

• Pliocene of Italy (1), Libya (1), United States (1: North Carolina)

• MN 13 of Portugal (2)

• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), Austria (4), Belgium (1), Costa Rica (2), the Czech Republic (2), France (3), Germany (3), India (3), Indonesia (1), Japan (2), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (3), Pakistan (1), Panama (5), Peru (1), Poland (1), Portugal (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (2), Sri Lanka (2), United States (13: California, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (2)

• Oligocene of Australia (1), France (1), Germany (3), Oman (1), Pakistan (2), United States (3: South Carolina)

• Eocene of Egypt (2), India (7), Italy (2), Jordan (2), Morocco (4), Pakistan (1), Romania (1), Senegal (3), Togo (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (12), United States (20: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (2)

• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1)

• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Morocco (15), Niger (1), United States (6: Arkansas, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina, Wyoming)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)

• Cretaceous of Bolivia (3), India (4), Morocco (2), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (5: Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Texas)

Total: 201 collections including 274 occurrences

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