WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal 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]
Ecologyecology 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] 
Othercontext 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]
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
From editor or global species database
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