Dasyatis Rafinesque, 1810
Snout obtuse and little produced to acute and strongly produced; disc more or less rhomboid, but not circular; tail whip-like, filamentous near tip, with or without a membranous fold or ridge above, but with a fold below (beginning at level of spine). Upper surfaces with or without bucklers, tubercles and thorns with conical cusps.
See family for biology, etc.
Species 36; in Clofnam area 4.
Recent revisions: on a regional basis only, Fowler (1941), Bigelow and Schroeder (1953), Wallace (1967), Capape (1977).
Species of this genus in the program:
Dasyatis centroura
Dasyatis pastinaca
Dasyatis tortonesei
Dasyatis violacea