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Atlantic stingray

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Atlantic stingray

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The Atlantic stingray (Hypanus sabinus) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae.[1][2] Beyond its use in the aquarium trade, this ray has little commercial value.[1]

Scientific classification

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassChondrichthyes
  4. SubclassElasmobranchii
  5. OrderMyliobatiformes
  6. FamilyDasyatidae
  7. GenusHypanus
  8. SpeciesHypanus sabinus

Named by (Lesueur, 1824)

Close relatives

Other species of Hypanus with a Codexery entry.

Sources: Wikipedia taxobox: Atlantic stingray (CC BY-SA 4.0) · order, family and genus agree with WoRMS AphiaID 1042864 (CC BY 4.0)

Conservation status

Least Concern (LC)

  1. LC▲ this species
  2. NT
  3. VU
  4. EN
  5. CR
  6. EW
  7. EX
Population trend
Not held in our sources — see the assessment
Assessment published
2020

Source: IUCN Red List assessment · GBIF copy of the Red List category

How big is it?

Size comparison: Atlantic stingray and a personA 0.61 m long atlantic stingray drawn to scale next to a 1.8 m tall person. Schematic shapes, not a likeness.0.61 m1.8 m

Largest length in the source, 0.61 m, next to a 1.8 m person.

Diagram: drawn by Codexery, schematic shapes to scale (not a likeness). Length: Wikipedia: Atlantic stingray

Where the atlantic stingray has been recorded

Where the atlantic stingray has been recorded53 mapped locations from 59,168 GBIF occurrence records; marked places: Atlantic Ocean, Chesapeake BayAtlantic OceanChesapeake Bay

Each dot is a place where the species has been observed and reported (59,168 records, half-degree grid) — not a modelled range. 100 inland records left out (institution coordinates).

Map: drawn by Codexery. Data: GBIF occurrence search (records CC0 / CC BY) · Natural Earth basemap (public domain) · place coordinates: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Biology and range

They prefer water temperatures over 15 °C and can tolerate temperatures over 30 °C.[3] The Atlantic stingray's geographic range extends along North America's Atlantic coast from the Chesapeake Bay down to Mexico, and it occupies both brackish and freshwater environments.[1] Sandy or silty bottoms in shallow coastal waters, estuaries, and lakes are the typical habitats of this species.[3] Using their electroreceptive ampullae of Lorenzini, Atlantic stingrays primarily hunt benthic invertebrates, including bivalves, tube anemones, amphipods, crustaceans, and nereid worms.[4]

The Atlantic stingray, like all other stingrays, gives birth to live young.[5] After a gestation lasting 4 to 4.5 months, females give birth to litters of 1 to 4 pups between late July and early August.[5] At birth, the young have a disk width of 10 to 13 cm.[5]

What the specialist sources record

The same source states that although some populations remain year round in freshwater systems, they have not lost their ability to return to the sea.[6] To compensate for the influx of water, these stingrays have a considerable urine flow rate which is almost 10 times higher than those found in marine individuals.[6][7] The GBIF database holds 59,505 occurrence records for this taxon.[8] The WoRMS database lists the environment as marine, brackish, and freshwater.[2]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Atlantic stingray" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Passarelli, N. and Piercy, A. Biological Profiles: Atlantic Stingray. Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department. Retrieved on March 9, 2009.; (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. World Register of Marine Species, Hypanus sabinus (AphiaID 1042864). CC BY 4.0. marinespecies.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Atlantic stingray" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Passarelli, N. and Piercy, A. Biological Profiles: Atlantic Stingray. Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department. Retrieved on March 9, 2009. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Atlantic stingray" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Murch, A. Atlantic stingray. Elasm-diver.com. Retrieved on March 8, 2009. (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Atlantic stingray" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Passarelli, N. and Piercy, A. Biological Profiles: Atlantic Stingray. Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department. Retrieved on March 9, 2009.; Snelson Jr., F.F., "Reproduction and Ecology of the Atlantic Stingray, Dasyatis sabina, in Florida Coastal Lagoons", Copeia, Aug 3, 1988, p. 729–739 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Murch, A. Atlantic stingray. Elasm-diver.com. Retrieved on March 8, 2009.. facts only, no text reused. elasmodiver.com
  7. Wikipedia, "Atlantic stingray" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Osmoregulation of the Atlantic Stingray (Dasyatis sabina) from the Freshwater Lake Jesup of the St. Johns River, Florida", Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 1998, p. 553–560 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence index, Hypanus sabinus (taxon key 9245001). CC BY 4.0 (backbone); counts are facts. gbif.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Atlantic stingray (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

Related entries

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1. To which biological family does the Atlantic stingray belong?

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Not quite. The answer is Dasyatidae.

2. What is the IUCN Red List category of the Atlantic stingray?

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Not quite. The answer is Least Concern.

3. What is the scientific name of the Atlantic stingray?

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Not quite. The answer is Hypanus sabinus.

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Sources

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