WoRMS name details

Urogymnus natalensis (Gilchrist & Thompson, 1911)

217425  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217425)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Chordata (Phylum)
  4. Vertebrata (Subphylum)
  5. Gnathostomata (Infraphylum)
  6. Chondrichthyes (Parvphylum)
  7. Elasmobranchii (Class)
  8. Neoselachii (Subclass)
  9. Batoidea (Infraclass)
  10. Myliobatiformes (Order)
  11. Dasyatidae (Family)
  12. Urogymnus (Genus)
  13. Urogymnus natalensis (Species)
 unaccepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Pteroplatea natalensis Gilchrist & Thompson, 1911) Gilchrist, J. D. F.; Thompson, W. W. (1911). Descriptions of fishes from the coast of Natal (Part III.). <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> v. 11 (pt 2): 29-58. [details] 
Description Found off sandy beaches, estuaries and offshore banks to 75 m deep; feeds on flatfish, sardines, mole crabs, worms and crabs.  
Description Found off sandy beaches, estuaries and offshore banks to 75 m deep; feeds on flatfish, sardines, mole crabs, worms and crabs. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Urogymnus natalensis (Gilchrist & Thompson, 1911). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217425 on 2025-06-23
Date
action
by
1997-02-24 18:26:33Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-02-28 13:41:07Z
changed
Bailly, Nicolas

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Nomenclature

original description (of Pteroplatea natalensis Gilchrist & Thompson, 1911) Gilchrist, J. D. F.; Thompson, W. W. (1911). Descriptions of fishes from the coast of Natal (Part III.). <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> v. 11 (pt 2): 29-58. [details] 

basis of record Ochumba, P.B.O. (1988). The distribution of skates and rays along the Kenyan coast. J. EA Nat Hist Soc & Nat. Mus. 78 (192) [details] 

Other

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Description Found off sandy beaches, estuaries and offshore banks to 75 m deep; feeds on flatfish, sardines, mole crabs, worms and crabs. [details]
LanguageName 
English butterfly ray  [details]
To FishBase 
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 7 proteins) 

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