Deepwater stingray

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Deepwater stingray
Conservation status
Least concern (LC)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Chondrichthyes Subclass: Elasmobranchii Order: Rajiformes Family: Plesiobatidae Genus: Plesiobatis Nishida, 1990 Species: P. daviesi
Binomial name
Plesiobatis daviesi (Wallace, 1967)

The deepwater stringray, Plesiobatis daviesi, is a species of ray, the only species in the genus Plesiobatis and family Plesiobatidae.

It is native to the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, from South Africa to Japan and Australia. It inhabits the bottoms of muddy and sandy continental slopes, where it eats small fish, crustaceans, cephalopods, and polychaetes It grows to 2.7 m in diameter.

[edit] References

• White et al (2005). Plesiobatis daviesi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 06 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
• Plesiobatis daviesi (TSN 564473). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 18 April 2006.
• "Plesiobatidae". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. January 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
• "Plesiobatis". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. January 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
• "Plesiobatis daviesi". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. January 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.