Protohimantura Marramà€ et al. 2018 (whiptail stingray)

Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae

Full reference: G. Marramà€, S. Klug, J. Vos and J. Kriwet. 2018. Anatomy, relationships and palaeobiogeographic implications of the first Neogene holomorphic stingray (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from the early Miocene of Sulawesi, Indonesia, SE Asia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184:1142-1168

Parent taxon: Urogymninae according to G. Marramà€ et al. 2018

Sister taxa: Himantura, Urogymnus

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Protohimantura in the database

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