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Cowtail Stingrays

Pastinachus

Pastinachus is a genus of stingrays in the family Dasyatidae. This genus was long held to be monotypic, containing only the cowtail stingray (P. sephen). Recent studies of Indo-Pacific stingrays have revealed that there are in fact a number of different species of Pastinachus, and that some former junior synonyms may need to be resurrected.

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 5 known species

Broad Cowtail Stingray

speciesPastinachus ater

Cowtail Stingray

speciesPastinachus sephen

Narrowtail Stingray

speciesPastinachus gracilicaudus

Roughnose Stingray

speciesPastinachus solocirostris

Starrynose Stingray

speciesPastinachus stellurostris

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47279.