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Dasyatis

Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae

Taxonomy
Dasyatis was named by Rafinesque (1810) [Sepkoski's age data: K Ceno-l R Sepkoski's reference number: 2,884]. It is extant. Its type is Dasyatis ujo.

It was assigned to Rhinobatidae by Dica et al. (1996); to Myliobatiformes by Underwood et al. (1999) and Sepkoski (2002); and to Dasyatidae by Hay (1902), Casier (1946), Jordan (1963), Casier (1966), Jonet (1968), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Cappetta (1987), Bryant (1989), Cvancara and Hoganson (1993), Noubhani and Cappetta (1997), Purdy et al. (2001), Tabuce et al. (2005), Rana et al. (2006), Balbino and Antunes (2006), Cicimurri and Knight (2009), Reinecke and Radwanski (2015), Marramà et al. (2018), Kent (2018), Hoganson et al. (2019), Ebersole et al. (2019), Villafaña et al. (2020), Cicimurri et al. (2022) and Guinot et al. (2023).

Species
D. africana, D. americana, D. borodini, D. branisai, D. carolinensis, D. cavernosa, D. centroura, D. charlisae, D. concavifoveus, D. datasi, D. davisi, D. duponti, D. gigas, D. hastata, D. hexagonalis, D. jaekeli, D. margaritella, D. martini, D. molassicus, D. molinoensis, D. northdakotaensis, D. pastinaca, D. ponsi, D. probsti, D. rafinesquei, D. rugosa, D. russelli, D. say, D. schaefferi, D. serralheiroi, D. sessaoensis, D. speetonensis, D. strangulata, D. sudrei, D. tetraedra, D. tricuspidatus, D. ujo (type species), D. vicaryi, D. wochadunensis, Heliobatis radians, Trygon alveolatus, Trygon dux, Trygon gazzolae, Trygon muricatus, Trygon oblongus, Trygon rugosus, Trygon sinhaleyus, Trygon vorstmani, Trygon zignii
Species lacking formal opinion data
D. centrourus, D. commercensis, D. crosswickense, D. delfortriei, D. margarita, D. newegyptensis, D. tricuspidata

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1810Dasyatis Rafinesque
1817Trygon Cuvier
1835Trygon Agassiz p. 38ff
1860Alexandrinum Molin
1873Trygon Leidy p. 353
1888Trygon Davis p. 37
1889Trygon Woodward p. 152
1894Trygon Jaekel p. 63
1902Dasyatis Hay p. 319
1904Trygon Eastman p. 23
1918Trygon Chapman p. 22
1924Trygon Chapman and Cudmore p. 138
1926Trygon Leriche p. 385
1926Trygon de Beaufort p. 119
1942Trygon Leriche p. 13
1946Dasyatis Casier p. 101
1963Dasyatis Jordan p. 604
1963Trygon Jordan p. 604
1966Dasyatis Casier p. 91
1968Dasyatis Jonet p. 247
1969Trygon Deraniyagala p. 7
1981Dasyatis Thurmond and Jones p. 74
1987Dasyatis Cappetta p. 163
1989Dasyatis Bryant p. 13
1993Dasyatis Cvancara and Hoganson p. 10
1996Dasyatis Dica et al. p. 120
1997Dasyatis Noubhani and Cappetta p. 99
1999Dasyatis Underwood et al. p. 294
2001Dasyatis Purdy et al. p. 90
2002Dasyatis Sepkoski
2005Dasyatis Tabuce et al. p. 387
2006Dasyatis Balbino and Antunes p. 748
2006Dasyatis Rana et al. p. 519
2009Dasyatis Cicimurri and Knight p. 637
2015Dasyatis Reinecke and Radwanski p. 14
2018Dasyatis Kent p. 126
2018Dasyatis Marramà et al. p. 287
2019Dasyatis Ebersole et al. p. 112
2019Dasyatis Hoganson et al. p. 40
2020Dasyatis Villafaña et al.
2022Dasyatis Cicimurri et al.
2023Dasyatis Guinot et al. pp. 17-19 fig. 10

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
RankNameAuthor
superclassGnathostomata
classChondrichthyes
subclassElasmobranchiiBonaparte 1838
orderMyliobatiformesCompagno 1973
familyDasyatidaeJordan 1888
genusDasyatisRafinesque 1810

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Dasyatis Rafinesque 1810
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†Dasyatis africana Dartevelle and Casier 1959
†Dasyatis americana Hildebrand and Schroeder 1928
†Dasyatis borodini Case 1981
†Dasyatis branisai Cappetta 1975
†Dasyatis carolinensis Emmons 1858
†Dasyatis cavernosa Probst 1877
Dasyatis centroura Mitchill 1814
†Dasyatis charlisae Case 1981
†Dasyatis concavifoveus Cvancara and Hoganson 1993
†Dasyatis datasi Noubhani and Cappetta 1997
†Dasyatis davisi Cassier 1966
†Dasyatis duponti Winkler 1874
†Dasyatis gigas Gunther 1870
†Dasyatis hastata De Kay 1842
†Dasyatis hexagonalis Arambourg 1952
†Dasyatis jaekeli Leriche 1906
†Dasyatis margaritella Compagno and Roberts 1984
†Dasyatis martini Noubhani and Cappetta 1997
†Dasyatis molassicus Probst 1877
†Dasyatis molinoensis Cappetta 1975
†Dasyatis northdakotaensis Hoganson et al. 2019
†Dasyatis pastinaca Linnaeus 1758
†Dasyatis ponsi Noubhani and Cappetta 1997
†Dasyatis probsti Cappetta 1970
†Dasyatis rafinesquei Kumar and Loyal 1987
†Dasyatis rugosa Probst 1877
†Dasyatis russelli Cappetta 1972
Dasyatis say Lesueur 1817
†Dasyatis schaefferi Cappetta 1975
†Dasyatis serralheiroi Cappetta 1970
†Dasyatis sessaoensis Cappetta 1972
†Dasyatis speetonensis Underwood et al. 1999
†Dasyatis strangulata Probst 1877
†Dasyatis sudrei Cappetta 1972
†Dasyatis tetraedra Arambourg 1952
†Dasyatis tricuspidatus Casier 1946
†Dasyatis ujo Rafinesque 1810
†Dasyatis vicaryi Loyal 1984
Invalid names: Alexandrinum Molin 1860 [synonym], Heliobatis [synonym], Trygon Cuvier 1817 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available