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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 035020 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Maculabatis astra   (Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & Pogonoski, 2008)
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): Blackspotted Whipray Common Names List: black-spotted whipray ray Organism Type: a stingray Synonyms: Himantura toshi Whitley, 1939 [in Last & Stevens, 1994, Daley et al 2002] Himantura astra Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Coastal (0-40m) Shelf Demersal (40-200m) Parent Codes: 37 035911     Maculabatis spp. Previous Codes (if any): 035020

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 [121] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 0 to 140 m.

Taxon Notes:	New genus erected by Last et al 2016 (Zootaxa, 4139)
Scientific Name Notes:	Most references to Himantura toshi [sensu Last & Stevens, 1994] prior to the description of Himantura astra Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & Pogonoski, 2008 probably refer to Maculabatis astra.
Common/Standard Name Notes:	"ray" is the marketing name for this species
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:21afcac5-51f7-4be6-8d6e-ab358be1dc72 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia FoA 2668 View at FoA WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1042866 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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