| Baraka's Whipray | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Superorder: | Batoidea |
| Order: | Myliobatiformes |
| Family: | Dasyatidae |
| Genus: | Maculabatis |
| Species: | M. ambigua |
| Binomial name | |
| Maculabatis ambigua Last, Bogorodsky & Alpermann, 2016 | |
Maculabatis ambigua, Baraka's whipray, is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae.[1] It is found in the Western Indian Ocean: from the Red Sea south to Tanzania and the island of Zanzibar. This species reaches a length of 90 cm (35 in). [2]
References
- ↑ Last, P.R., S.V. Bogorodsky and T.J. Alpermann, 2016. Maculabatis ambigua sp. nov., a new whipray (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from the Western Indian Ocean. Zootaxa 4154(1):66-78.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Maculabatis ambigua" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
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