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Scientific Name: Maculabatis pastinacoides (Bleeker, 1852)
English Name: Round whip ray
Local/Bangla Name: Shapla pata (শাপলা পাতা), Hash (হাশ)
Photo: G M MASUM BILLAH(iNaturalist)
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Elasmobranchii
Order: Myliobatiformes
Family: Dasyatidae
Description:
Disc broadly suboval (as wide as long); anterior margin of disc weakly convex; snout rather short and broadly triangular; tail narrow-based, subcircular in cross-setion, slender, whip-like beyond sting; denticle band very broad, well-defined and developing rapidly with growth (fully developed by 30 cm DW); usually pearl-shaped thorns on back (anteriormost largest); no thorns or skin folds on tail; tail beyond caudal sting densely granular. Body colour uniform brownish, greyish to greenish above, white below; tail blackish behind sting.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Inshore in coastal waters, estuaries and
near large river mouths. Bangladesh coast.
Environment:
Marine
Main References:
Hoq ME and Haroon AKY (2014) Sharks, skates and rays of Bangladesh. Sustainable Management of the BOBLME Project, Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute.
Other References:
Hossain MS, Chowdhury SR, Sharifuzzaman SM , Islam MM, Hasan J, Haque MA , Ali MZ, Hoq ME, Mahmud Y (2020) Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute and Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Chattogram, 512pp.
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