Southern stingray
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The southern stingray (Hypanus americanus) is a whiptail stingray found in tropical and subtropical waters of the Western Atlantic Ocean from New Jersey to southern Brazil.[2] It has a flat, diamond-shaped disc, with a mud brown, olive, and grey dorsal surface and white underbelly (ventral surface).[3] The barb on its tail is serrated and covered in a venomous mucus, used for self-defense.While they may still be decent in number they were recently added to the endangered list.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Superorder: | Batoidea |
Order: | Myliobatiformes |
Family: | Dasyatidae |
Genus: | Hypanus |
Species: | H. americanus |
Binomial name | |
Hypanus americanus (Hildebrand & Schroeder, 1928) | |
Range of the southern stingray | |
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