BUTTERFLY RAY

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The 'butterfly rays' are a family, 'Gymnuridae', of rays. They are characterized by an extremely broad disc and a very short tail.

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Classification

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Classification

McEachran et al. place the butterfly rays in the subfamily Gymnurinae of the family Dasyatidae,^[1] but this article follows FishBase and ITIS in treating them as a family.^[2][2]

There are fourteen species in two genera:

★ Genus ''Aetoplatea''

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★ Tentacled butterfly ray, ''Aetoplatea tentaculata'' Müller & Henle, 1841.

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★ Zonetail butterfly ray, ''Aetoplatea zonura'' Bleeker, 1852.

★ Genus ''Gymnura''

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★ ''Gymnura afuerae'' (Hildebrand, 1946).

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★ Spiny butterfly ray, ''Gymnura altavela'' (Linnaeus, 1758).

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★ Australian butterfly ray, ''Gymnura australis'' (Ramsay & Ogilby, 1886).

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★ Twin-spot butterfly ray, ''Gymnura bimaculata'' (Norman, 1925).

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★ Longsnout butterfly ray, ''Gymnura crebripunctata'' (Peters, 1869).

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★ ''Gymnura crooki'' Fowler, 1934.

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★ Madeira butterfly ray, ''Gymnura hirundo'' (Lowe, 1843).

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★ Japanese butterfly ray, ''Gymnura japonica'' (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850).

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★ California butterfly ray, ''Gymnura marmorata'' (Cooper, 1864).

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★ Smooth butterfly ray, ''Gymnura micrura'' (Bloch & Schneider, 1801).

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★ Backwater butterfly ray, ''Gymnura natalensis'' (Gilchrist & Thompson, 1911).

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★ Longtail butterfly ray, ''Gymnura poecilura'' (Shaw, 1804).

References

1. Interrelationships of Fishes, J. D. McEachran, K. A. Dunn & T. Miyake, , , Academic Press, 1996,
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