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Overview |
Main identification features
- disc: broad oval ; snout round
- tail: low fold above, large one below, 2 spines
TAENIURA
FANTAIL RAYS, RIBBONTAIL STINGRAYS
Disc circular to oval; teeth small, densely packed like tiles; tail with thick, depressed base, slightly longer than disc; low ridge on top of tail and larger fold on lower side of tail that reaches tail tip; 2 large venomous spines on top of tail.
This is circumtropical genus, except for eastern Atlantic; with 3 species and has one Indo-Pacific representative in our region.
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References |
- Compagno, L.J.V., 1999., Checklist of living elasmobranchs. In Hamlett W.C. (ed.) Sharks, skates, and rays: the biology of elasmobranch fishes., The John Hopkins University Press:471-498.
- Edgar, G.J. Banks, S., Fariña, J.M., Calvopiña, M. and Martínez, C., 2004., Regional biogeography of shallow reef fish and macro-invertebrate communities in the Galapagos archipelago., Journal of Biogeography, 31:1107-1124.
- Humann, P., 1993., Reef Fish Identification: Galapagos., New World Publishing:192pp.
- Müller , J. and Henle, F. G. J., 1839., Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen. Berlin., Plagiostomen, :27-102.
- Smith , M. M. and Heemstra, P., 1986., Smith's Sea Fishes. Johannesburg: Macmillan South Africa. 1047 pp., Macmillan South Africa:1047pp.
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Acknowledgements |
I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page.
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