Heliobatis radians Marsh 1877 (whiptail stingray)

Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae

Alternative combination: Dasyatis radians

Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1877. Notice of some new vertebrate fossils. American Journal of Arts and Sciences 14:249-256

Belongs to Heliobatis according to O. C. Marsh 1877

See also Hay 1902

Sister taxa: Dasyatis africana, Dasyatis borodini, Dasyatis branisai, Dasyatis carasuensis, Dasyatis carolinensis, Dasyatis cavernosa, Dasyatis charlisae, Dasyatis commercensis, Dasyatis concavifoveus, Dasyatis datasi, Dasyatis davisi, Dasyatis delfortriei, Dasyatis fallax, Dasyatis gigas, Dasyatis hastata, Dasyatis hexagonalis, Dasyatis jaekeli, Dasyatis manuelcamposi, Dasyatis margaritella, Dasyatis martini, Dasyatis molassicus, Dasyatis molinoensis, Dasyatis newegyptensis, Dasyatis northdakotaensis, Dasyatis pastinaca, Dasyatis ponsi, Dasyatis probsti, Dasyatis rafinesquei, Dasyatis rugosa, Dasyatis russelli, Dasyatis schaefferi, Dasyatis serralheiroi, Dasyatis sessaoensis, Dasyatis speetonensis, Dasyatis strangulata, Dasyatis sudrei, Dasyatis tetraedra, Dasyatis thierryi, Dasyatis tochtabusiensis, Dasyatis tricuspidatus, Dasyatis vicaryi, Dasyatis wochadunensis, Trygon zignii, Trygon alveolatus, Trygon vorstmani, Trygon sinhaleyus, Trygon dux, Trygon rugosus, Trygon gazzolae, Trygon muricatus, Trygon oblongus

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Heliobatis radians in the database

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