Hemitrygon longicauda
Hemitrygon longicauda, the Merauke stingray, is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae.[1]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | Myliobatiformes |
| Family: | Dasyatidae |
| Genus: | Hemitrygon |
| Species: | H. longicauda |
| Binomial name | |
| Hemitrygon longicauda | |
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Hemitrygon longicauda is found in the Western Pacific, where it is endemic to southern Guinea. This species reaches a length of 31 cm (12 in). [2]
References
- Last, P.R. and W. White, 2013. Two new stingrays (Chondrichthyes: Dasyatidae) from the eastern Indonesian Archipelago. Zootaxa 3722(1):001-021.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Hemitrygon longicauda" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
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