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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Elasmobranchii (class)  »  Rajiformes (order)  »  Dasyatidae (family)

CAAB Code:	37 035011 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Pastinachus ater   (Macleay, 1883)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images Image by: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Rights: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO Family: 37 35 Dasyatidae (Stingrays) - show full list Standard Name (AS5300): Cowtail Stingray Common Names List: cowtail stingray Organism Type: a stingray Synonyms: Pastinachus sephen (Forsskål, 1775) [in Last & Stevens, 1994 and many other references] Pastinachus atrus [Last & Stevens 2009] (the name is clearly derived from the Latin for black and the correct masculine adjective is ater) Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Estuarine Coastal (0-40m) Shelf Demersal (40-200m) Parent Codes: 37 035904     Pastinachus spp. Previous Codes (if any): 035011

Distribution map: View detailed map or click on map to see same. Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2008-11-19. Occurrence locations [12] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 0 to 60 m.

Scientific Name Notes:	Pastinachus sephen was described by Forsskål from the Red Sea (as Raja sephen). Pastinachus sephen is most likely a different species to P. ater (described as Taeniura atra by Macleay from Papua New Guinea). The latter name is used for the Australian species until the taxonomy is resolved.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:7e58fc38-1ac2-4949-aec4-48b4d1130982 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia FoA 2029 View at FoA WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1019891 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2022-08-21 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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