Whitespotted whipray

Whitespotted whipray
Conservation status
	; Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Myliobatiformes
Family:	Dasyatidae
Genus:	Maculabatis
Species:	M. gerrardi
Binomial name
	Maculabatis gerrardi; (Gray, 1851)
Synonyms
	Trygon gerrardi J. E. Gray, 1851; Trygon macrurus Bleeker, 1852; Dasyatis gerrardi (Gray, 1851); Himantura gerrardi (Gray, 1851); Himantura gerrardii (Gray, 1851); Trygon liocephalus Klunzinger, 1871;

The whitespotted whipray or sharpnose stingray (Maculabatis gerrardi) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae. It is found in coastal regions including estuaries, in the Indo-Pacific, and has also been recorded in the Ganges River.^[2] It reaches a maximum disc width of 2 m (6.6 ft). As presently defined, it is probably a species complex.^[3]

Etymology

The Stingray is named in honor of Edward Gerrard (1810-1910), a taxidermist at the British Museum of Natural History, who with his shark and ray identifications assisted Gray.^[4]

References

^ Sherman CS, Ali M, Bin Ali A, Bineesh KK, Derrick D, Dharmadi, Elhassan I, Fahmi, Fernando D, Haque AB, Jabado RW, Maung A, Seyha L, Spaet J, Tanay D, Utzurrum JAT, Valinassab T, Vo VQ, Yuneni RR (2020). "Maculabatis gerrardi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T161566A175219648. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T161566A175219648.en.
^ Ishihara, H. & Taniuchi, T. & Tanaka, Sho & Srivastava, M.P. (1998) Investigation of the freshwater elasmobranchs in the River Ganges. In Adaptability and conservation of freshwater elasmobranchs. Report of Research Project, Grant–in–Aid for International Scientific Research(Field Research) in the financial year of 1996 and 1997: 41–55
^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Maculabatis gerrardi". FishBase. October 2008 version.
^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order MYLIOBATIFORMES (Stingrays)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 13 February 2022.

Last, P.R. and L.J.V. Compagno, 1999. Dasyatididae. Stingrays. p. 1479-1505. In K.E. Carpenter and V.H. Niem (eds.) FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Vol. 3. Batoid fishes, chimaeras and bony fishes part 1 (Elopidae to Linophrynidae). FAO, Rome.

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[iucn-1] Sherman CS, Ali M, Bin Ali A, Bineesh KK, Derrick D, Dharmadi, Elhassan I, Fahmi, Fernando D, Haque AB, Jabado RW, Maung A, Seyha L, Spaet J, Tanay D, Utzurrum JAT, Valinassab T, Vo VQ, Yuneni RR (2020). "Maculabatis gerrardi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T161566A175219648. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T161566A175219648.en.

[2] Ishihara, H. & Taniuchi, T. & Tanaka, Sho & Srivastava, M.P. (1998) Investigation of the freshwater elasmobranchs in the River Ganges. In Adaptability and conservation of freshwater elasmobranchs. Report of Research Project, Grant–in–Aid for International Scientific Research(Field Research) in the financial year of 1996 and 1997: 41–55

[fishbase-3] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Maculabatis gerrardi". FishBase. October 2008 version.

[ETYFish-4] Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order MYLIOBATIFORMES (Stingrays)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 13 February 2022.

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Taxon identifiers
Himantura gerrardi	Wikidata: Q2633571 ARKive: himantura-gerrardi BOLD: 16918 CoL: 6M95Z EUNIS: 123140 GBIF: 5215880 iNaturalist: 102765 IRMNG: 11119223 ITIS: 564353 NCBI: 86363 Observation.org: 791892 WoRMS: 217412
Trygon gerrardi	Wikidata: Q28926025 CoL: 7CXZL EUNIS: 122573 GBIF: 7388046 IRMNG: 11047133 WoRMS: 322208

Etymology

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