Dasyatidae
Creators: name: Golani, Daniel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Pisces
Myliobatiformes
Dasyatidae

description: DASYATIDAE   Brevitrygon walga (Müller & Henle 1841)   
 Red Sea: (Müller & Henle 1841, as Trygon walga; Last et al. 2016).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Klunzinger 1871, as Raja obtusa and Trygon polylepis; Dor 1984, as Dasyatis imbricata; Last et al. 2016).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden east to western India.   
 Himantura uarnak (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gruvel 1936, as Trygon uarnak)   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Trygon uarnak), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Marshall 1952, as Dasyatis uarnak), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Trygon uarnak), Eritrea (Tortonese 1956), Saudi Arabia (Spaet & Berumen 2015), Yemen (Botros 1971, as Trygon uarnak). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966).   
 Maculabatis ambigua Last, Bogorodsky & Alpermann 2016   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Golani et al. 2008 as Himantura gerrardi).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Dasyatis gerrardi), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b, as Himantura gerrardi; Last et al. 2016).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa.   
 Neotrygon caeruleopunctatus Last, White & Séret 2016   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Melouk 1959, as Tryghon kuhlii), Eritrea (Tortonese 1956, as Dasyatis kuhlii). General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western Indonesia.   
 Pastinachus sephen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Lieske & Myers 2010).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Dasyatis sephen), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Trygon sephen), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Dasyatis sephen), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Raja sephen; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Botros 1971, as Trygon sephen).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden east to Pakistan.   
 Pateobatis fai (Jordan & Seale 1906)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Trygon liocephalus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marquesas Islands.   
 Taeniura lymma (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (El-Ganainy et al 2005).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Marshall 1952), Israel (Ben-Tuvia &Steinitz 1952), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871), Eritrea (Kossmann & Räuber 1877), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Raja lymma; see Fricke 2008).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and Papua New Guinea.   
 Taeniurops meyeni (Müller & Henle 1841)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Taeniura melanospila), Eritrea (Tortonese 1956, as Taeniura melanospilos).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marquesas Islands.   
 Urogymnus asperrimus (Bloch & Schneider 1801)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Urogymnus rhombeus), Eritrea (Tortonese 1956, as Urogymnus africanus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Mariana Islands and Fiji; possibly eastern Atlantic.   
 Urogymnus granulatus (Macleay 1883)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014a, as Himantura granulata).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Palau and Solomon Islands.
description: Published as part of Golani, Daniel & Fricke, Ronald, 2018, Checklist of the Red Sea Fishes with delineation of the Gulf of Suez, Gulf of Aqaba, endemism and Lessepsian migrants, pp. 1-215 in Zootaxa 4509 (1) on pages 15-16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566