WoRMS taxon details
Styracura pacifica (Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941)
1297576 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1297576)
accepted
Species
Dasyatis pacificus Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941 · unaccepted
Himantura pacifica (Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Dasyatis pacificus Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941) Beebe, W.; Tee-Van, J. (1941). Eastern Pacific expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. XXVIII. Fishes from the tropical eastern Pacific. [From Cedros Island, Lower California, south to the Galápagos Islands and northern Peru.] Part 3. Rays, Mantas and Chimaeras. <em>Zoologica, Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society.</em> 26 (pt 3, no. 26): 245-280, Pls. 1-4., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.203595 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Styracura pacifica (Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1297576 on 2026-03-26
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Nomenclature
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(of Dasyatis pacificus Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941) Beebe, W.; Tee-Van, J. (1941). Eastern Pacific expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. XXVIII. Fishes from the tropical eastern Pacific. [From Cedros Island, Lower California, south to the Galápagos Islands and northern Peru.] Part 3. Rays, Mantas and Chimaeras. <em>Zoologica, Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society.</em> 26 (pt 3, no. 26): 245-280, Pls. 1-4., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.203595 [details]
new combination reference Carvalho, M. R. D.; Loboda, T. S.; Silva, J. P. C. B. D. (2016). A new subfamily, Styracurinae, and new genus, Styracura, for Himantura schmardae (Werner, 1904) and Himantura pacifica (Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941) (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4175(3): 201-221., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4175.3.1 [details] Available for editors
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new combination reference Carvalho, M. R. D.; Loboda, T. S.; Silva, J. P. C. B. D. (2016). A new subfamily, Styracurinae, and new genus, Styracura, for Himantura schmardae (Werner, 1904) and Himantura pacifica (Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941) (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4175(3): 201-221., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4175.3.1 [details] Available for editors
[request]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] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | Pacific whiptail stingray [from synonym] | [details] |
| Spanish | raya coluda del Pacífico [from synonym] | [details] |
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Himantura pacifica (Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Styracura pacifica)
To FishBase (from synonym Dasyatis pacificus Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941)
To FishBase (from synonym Himantura pacifica (Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941))
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 15 proteins) (from synonym Himantura pacifica (Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941))
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 15 proteins) (from synonym Dasyatis pacificus Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941)
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 15 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Himantura pacifica (Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941))
To IUCN Red List (Vulnerable)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Styracura pacifica)
To FishBase (from synonym Dasyatis pacificus Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941)
To FishBase (from synonym Himantura pacifica (Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941))
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 15 proteins) (from synonym Himantura pacifica (Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941))
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 15 proteins) (from synonym Dasyatis pacificus Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941)
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 15 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Himantura pacifica (Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941))
To IUCN Red List (Vulnerable)
