Bathytoshia

Bathytoshia
B. lata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Myliobatiformes
Family:	Dasyatidae
Subfamily:	Dasyatinae
Genus:	Bathytoshia Whitley, 1933
Type species
Dasyatis thetidis Ogilby, 1899

Bathytoshia is a genus of stingrays in the family Dasyatidae found worldwide in tropical and warm temperate oceans (except the East Pacific and tropical Indian Ocean). It was formerly regarded as a junior synonym of the genus Dasyatis . ^[1]

Species

Molecular phylogenetic data indicate that several previously recognized Dasyatis species are in fact populations of wider-ranging Bathytoshia species.

Image	Scientific name	Distribution
	Bathytoshia brevicaudata (F. W. Hutton, 1875) (including Dasyatis matsubarai and D. multispinosa )	from southern Africa to Hawaii
	Bathytoshia centroura (Mitchill, 1815)	northwestern and southwestern Atlantic Ocean
	Bathytoshia lata (Garman, 1880) (including D. thetidis , D. ushiei , and eastern Atlantic B. centroura)	southern Africa,

References

1. Last, P.R.; Naylor, G.J.; Manjaji-Matsumoto, B.M. (2016). "A revised classification of the family Dasyatidae (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes) based on new morphological and molecular insights". Zootaxa. 4139 (3): 345–368. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4139.3.2. PMID   27470808.