WoRMS taxon details
Plesiobatis daviesi (Wallace, 1967)
220089 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220089)
accepted
Species
Urolophus marmoratus Chu, Hu & Li, 1981 · unaccepted > junior homonym (of Urolophus marmoratus...)
of Urolophus marmoratus Philippi,1892
Urotrygon davesi Wallace, 1967 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Urotrygon daviesi Wallace, 1967 · unaccepted
Urotrygon daviesis Wallace, 1967 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Urotrygon daviesi Wallace, 1967) Wallace, J. H. (1967). The batoid fishes of the east coast of southern Africa. Part 2: manta, eagle, duckbill, cownose, butterfly and sting rays. <em>Investigational Report. Oceanographic Research Institute, Durban.</em> No. 16: 1-56. [details]
Description An apparently rare ray (Ref. 5213) that occurs in deeper water beyond the reef. Inhabits soft bottoms (Ref. 9914). Feeds on...
Description An apparently rare ray (Ref. 5213) that occurs in deeper water beyond the reef. Inhabits soft bottoms (Ref. 9914). Feeds on fishes, crabs, shrimp, lobsters, and cephalopods (Ref. 9914). Disc width about 150 cm. Caught using deepset longlines and bottom trawls (Ref. 9914). The shallow occurence at 44 m comes from shelf record off Mozambique (Ref. 9914). [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Plesiobatis daviesi (Wallace, 1967). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220089 on 2025-04-29
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Urotrygon daviesi Wallace, 1967) Wallace, J. H. (1967). The batoid fishes of the east coast of southern Africa. Part 2: manta, eagle, duckbill, cownose, butterfly and sting rays. <em>Investigational Report. Oceanographic Research Institute, Durban.</em> No. 16: 1-56. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description An apparently rare ray (Ref. 5213) that occurs in deeper water beyond the reef. Inhabits soft bottoms (Ref. 9914). Feeds on fishes, crabs, shrimp, lobsters, and cephalopods (Ref. 9914). Disc width about 150 cm. Caught using deepset longlines and bottom trawls (Ref. 9914). The shallow occurence at 44 m comes from shelf record off Mozambique (Ref. 9914). [details]Remark Genus B. Mundy, pers. comm. [details]
To Barcode of Life (24 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Urolophus marmoratus Chu, Hu & Li, 1981)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Urotrygon daviesi Wallace, 1967)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Urotrygon daviesi Wallace, 1967)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Plesiobatis daviesi)
To FishBase (from synonym Urotrygon daviesi Wallace, 1967)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Urolophus marmoratus Chu, Hu & Li, 1981)
To FishBase (from synonym Urotrygon davesi Wallace, 1967)
To FishBase images (Plesiobatis daviesi, North Marianas, by Myers, R.F.)
To GenBank (32 nucleotides; 51 proteins)
To GenBank (32 nucleotides; 51 proteins) (from synonym Urotrygon daviesi Wallace, 1967)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Urolophus marmoratus Chu, Hu & Li, 1981)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Urotrygon daviesi Wallace, 1967)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Urotrygon daviesi Wallace, 1967)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Plesiobatis daviesi)
To FishBase (from synonym Urotrygon daviesi Wallace, 1967)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Urolophus marmoratus Chu, Hu & Li, 1981)
To FishBase (from synonym Urotrygon davesi Wallace, 1967)
To FishBase images (Plesiobatis daviesi, North Marianas, by Myers, R.F.)
To GenBank (32 nucleotides; 51 proteins)
To GenBank (32 nucleotides; 51 proteins) (from synonym Urotrygon daviesi Wallace, 1967)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
