Urobatis


Urobatis is a genus of the family Urotrygonidae. These rays live in Costa Rica, Mexico, the Bahamas, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Anguilla, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and the United States.

Species

There are currently seven recognized species in this genus:Urobatis concentricus R. C. Osburn & J. T. Nichols, 1916 Urobatis halleri J. G. Cooper, 1863 Urobatis jamaicensis G. Cuvier, 1816 Urobatis maculatus Garman, 1913 Urobatis marmoratus Philippi , 1893 Urobatis molleni Hovestadt & Hovestadt-Euler, 2010Urobatis pardalis Del-Moral-Flores, Angulo, M. I. Bussing & W. A. Bussing, 2015