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Urogymnus
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Urogymnus

Urogymnus is a genus of stingrays in the family Dasyatidae from marine, brackish and freshwater habitats in the Indo-Pacific and tropical East Atlantic regions. The genus was previously considered to be monotypic, containing only the porcupine ray (U. asperrimus). Molecular phylogenetic research published in 2016 reassigned several species from Himantura to Urogymnus.

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6 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 6 known species

Mangrove Whipray

speciesUrogymnus granulatus

Porcupine Ray

speciesUrogymnus asperrimus

Giant Freshwater Stingray

speciesUrogymnus polylepis

Freshwater Whipray

speciesUrogymnus dalyensis

Tubemouth Whipray

speciesUrogymnus lobistoma

Mumburarr Whipray

speciesUrogymnus acanthobothrium

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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 82267.