Taeniurops

Taeniurops
T. meyeni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Myliobatiformes
Family:	Dasyatidae
Subfamily:	Dasyatinae
Genus:	Taeniurops Garman, 1913
Type species
Taeniura meyeni J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841
Synonyms
Trygon Geoffroy St. Hilaire 1817

Taeniurops is a genus of stingrays in the family Dasyatidae. Its two species were formerly contained within the genus Taeniura . ^[1]

Species

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Taeniurops grabata (Geoffroy St. Hilaire, 1817)	Round fantail stingray	eastern Atlantic Ocean and the southern Mediterranean Sea
	Taeniurops meyeni (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841)	Round ribbontail ray	tropical Indo-Pacific

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.