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Species Name:    Dasyatis americana
Common Name:         (Southern Stingray)

 

I.  TAXONOMY

Kingdom Phylum/Division: Class: Order: Family: Genus:
Animalia Chordata Chondrichthyes Rajiformes Dasyatidae Dasyatis


The Southern Stingray, Dasyatis americana.  Illustration by Diana Rome Peebles 1998.  Courtesy of Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Division of Marine Fisheries. 		Species Name:
Dasyatis americana Hildebrand and Schroeder, 1928


Common Name:
Southern Stingray