Southern Stingray [Hypanus americanus]
Description
The Southern Stingray, or Hypanus americanus, is a whiptail stingray found in tropical and subtropical waters of the Western Atlantic Ocean from New Jersey to Brazil. It has a flat, diamond-shaped disc, with a mud brown, olive, and grey dorsal surface and white underbelly (ventral surface). Its barbed stinger is located halfway up the tail and can inflict a painful wound.
Taxonomy
| Phylum |
Chordates
Chordata
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|---|---|
| Class |
Cartilaginous Fish
Chondrichthyes
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| Order |
Stingrays
Myliobatiformes
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| Family |
Deepwater Stingrays
Plesiobatidae
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| Genus |
Deepwater Stingray
Plesiobatis
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