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Pteroplatytrygon violacea (Bonaparte, 1832) 
AphiaID: 158540

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Elasmobranchii (Class) > Neoselachii (Subclass) > Batoidea (Infraclass) > Rajiformes (Order) > Dasyatidae (Family) > Pteroplatytrygon (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Pteroplatytrygon Fowler, 1910
Synonymised
taxa
  Dasyatis atratus Ishiyama & Okada, 1955
Dasyatis guileri Last, 1979
Dasyatis purpurea (Müller & Henle, 1841)
Dasyatis purpureus (Müller & Henle, 1841) (misspelling)
Dasyatis violacea (Bonaparte, 1832)
Trygon purpurea Müller & Henle, 1841
Trygon violacea Bonaparte, 1832
Sources  basis of record: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details]

basis of record: Anon. (2000). FishBase 2000 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. 4 cd-roms pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: McEachran, J. D. 2009. Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

basis of record (from synonym): van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

additional source (from synonym): Roberts, C.; Stewart, A.; Francis, M. (2009). Marine fishes (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] [view taxon]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English pelagic stingray  [details]
French pastenague violette (from synonym)  [details]
Hebrew טריגון כד-אף (from synonym)  [details]
Polish ogończa fioletowa  [details]
Russian хвостокол пелагический  [details]
Spanish raya látigo violeta  [details]
Spanish raya violácea  [details]
Turkish dikenli vatoz (from synonym)  [details]
Turkish iğneli vatoz  [details]
Turkish mavi rina balığı  [details]
Turkish rina  [details]
Turkish rina baligi (from synonym)  [details]
Ukrainian Морський-кіт пелагічний  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
British Columbia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Chagos [details]
Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
FAO fishing area 67 (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mauritius [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North East Pacific (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North Pacific (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
South Africa (country) [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Western Indian Ocean [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: Feeds on cephalopods, bony fishes and jellyfish  [details]

Distribution: eastern edge of the Grand Banks to the Lesser Antilles [details]

Habitat: nektonic [details]

Habitat: Found in open, tropical and warm temperate waters usually in the first 100 m. [details]

Importance: Scientific- Venomous tip on tail [details]

Reproduction: Internal fertilization; ovoviviparous  [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158540
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-26 07:43:32Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Pteroplatytrygon violacea (Bonaparte, 1832). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158540 on 2013-06-19
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