Genus Dasyatis

Dasyatis Rafinesque, 1810

Description
Snout obtuse and little produced to acute and strongly produced; disc more or less rhomboid, but not circular; tail whip-like, filamentous near tip, with or without a membranous fold or ridge above, but with a fold below (beginning at level of spine). Upper surfaces with or without bucklers, tubercles and thorns with conical cusps.

Recent revisions: on a regional basis only, Fowler, 1941; Bigelow and Schroeder, 1953; Wallace, 1967; Capapé, 1977.

Species included on this CD-rom:
Dasyatis imbricatus (Bloch and Schneider)

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