Broad stingray, the Glossary

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1. 55 relations: Atlantic Ocean, Benthic zone, Carangidae, Clade, Coast, Crustacean, Dasyatis ushiei, Demersal fish, Diamond stingray, Eucestoda, Family (biology), Fish fin, Fish scale, Gobiidae, Hawaiian Islands, History of Hawaii, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Invertebrate, Isthmus of Panama, Latin, Longtail stingray, Marine protected area, Mediterranean Sea, Molecular phylogenetics, Morphology (biology), North Africa, Osteichthyes, Ovoviviparity, Papilla (fish anatomy), Parasitism, Parrotfish, Pelvic fin, Phylogenetics, Polychaete, Predation, Public aquarium, Reef, Roughtail stingray, Samuel Garman, Scalloped hammerhead, Scientific journal, Sister group, Southern stingray, Speciation, Species, Species distribution, Stingray, Synonym (taxonomy), Thorntail stingray, Tide, ... Expand index (5 more) »

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Benthic zone

The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean, lake, or stream, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers.

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Carangidae

The Carangidae are a family of ray-finned fish that includes the jacks, pompanos, jack mackerels, runners, trevallies, and scads.

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Clade

In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.

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Coast

A coastalso called the coastline, shoreline, or seashoreis the land next to the sea or the line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake.

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Crustacean

Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.

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Dasyatis ushiei

Dasyatis ushiei, the cow stingray or Ushi stingray, is a species of stingray known from a single specimen. Broad stingray and Dasyatis ushiei are Dasyatis.

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Demersal fish

Demersal fish, also known as groundfish, live and feed on or near the bottom of seas or lakes (the demersal zone).

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Diamond stingray

The diamond stingray (Hypanus dipterurus) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae. Broad stingray and diamond stingray are fish described in 1880.

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Eucestoda

Eucestoda, commonly referred to as tapeworms, is the larger of the two subclasses of flatworms in the class Cestoda (the other subclass is Cestodaria).

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Fish fin

Fins are moving appendages protruding from the body of fish that interact with water to generate thrust and help the fish swim.

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Fish scale

A fish scale is a small rigid plate that grows out of the skin of a fish.

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Gobiidae

Gobiidae or gobies is a family of bony fish in the order Gobiiformes, one of the largest fish families comprising more than 2,000 species in more than 200 genera.

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Hawaiian Islands

The Hawaiian Islands (Hawaiian: Mokupuni Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll.

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History of Hawaii

The history of Hawaii is the story of human settlements in the Hawaiian Islands.

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

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Invertebrate

Invertebrates is an umbrella term describing animals that neither develop nor retain a vertebral column (commonly known as a spine or backbone), which evolved from the notochord.

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Isthmus of Panama

The Isthmus of Panama (Istmo de Panamá), also historically known as the Isthmus of Darien (Istmo de Darién), is the narrow strip of land that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, linking North and South America.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Longtail stingray

The longtail stingray (Hypanus longus, often misspelled longa), is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, found in the eastern Pacific Ocean from Baja California to Colombia. Broad stingray and longtail stingray are fish described in 1880.

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Marine protected area

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are protected areas of the world's seas, oceans, estuaries or in the US, the Great Lakes.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Molecular phylogenetics

Molecular phylogenetics is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships.

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Morphology (biology)

Morphology in biology is the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.

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North Africa

North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.

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Osteichthyes

Osteichthyes, also known as osteichthyans or commonly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse superclass of vertebrate animals that have endoskeletons primarily composed of bone tissue.

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Ovoviviparity

Ovoviviparity, ovovivipary, ovivipary, or aplacental viviparity is a term used as a "bridging" form of reproduction between egg-laying oviparous and live-bearing viviparous reproduction.

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Papilla (fish anatomy)

The papilla, in certain kinds of fish, particularly rays, sharks, and catfish, are small lumps of dermal tissue found in the mouth, where they are "distributed uniformly on the tongue, palate, and pharynx".

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Parasitism

Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.

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Parrotfish

Parrotfish are a group of fish species traditionally regarded as a family (Scaridae), but now often treated as a subfamily (Scarinae) or tribe (Scarini) of the wrasses (Labridae).

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Pelvic fin

Pelvic fins or ventral fins are paired fins located on the ventral (belly) surface of fish, and are the lower of the only two sets of paired fins (the other being the laterally positioned pectoral fins).

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Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms.

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Polychaete

Polychaeta is a paraphyletic class of generally marine annelid worms, commonly called bristle worms or polychaetes.

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Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.

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Public aquarium

A public aquarium or public water zoo is the aquatic counterpart of a zoo, which houses living aquatic animal and plant specimens for public viewing.

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Reef

A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral, or similar relatively stable material lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water.

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Roughtail stingray

The roughtail stingray (Bathytoshia centroura) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, with separate populations in coastal waters of the northwestern and southwestern Atlantic Ocean.

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Samuel Garman

Samuel Walton Garman (June 5, 1843 – September 30, 1927), or "Garmann" as he sometimes styled himself, was an American naturalist and zoologist.

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Scalloped hammerhead

The scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini) is a species of hammerhead shark in the family Sphyrnidae.

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Scientific journal

In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication designed to further the progress of science by disseminating new research findings to the scientific community.

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Sister group

In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.

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Southern stingray

The southern stingray (Hypanus americanus) is a whiptail stingray found in tropical and subtropical waters of the Western Atlantic Ocean from New Jersey to southern Brazil. Broad stingray and southern stingray are Dasyatis.

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Speciation

Speciation is the evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Species distribution

Species distribution, or species dispersion, is the manner in which a biological taxon is spatially arranged.

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Stingray

Stingrays are a group of sea rays, a type of cartilaginous fish.

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Synonym (taxonomy)

The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently.

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Thorntail stingray

The thorntail stingray, black stingray, or longtail stingray (Dasyatis thetidis) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae. Broad stingray and thorntail stingray are Dasyatis.

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Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another.

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Type (biology)

In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally associated.

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Vulnerable species

A vulnerable species is a species which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being threatened with extinction unless the circumstances that are threatening its survival and reproduction improve.

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Whiptail stingray

The whiptail stingrays are a family, the Dasyatidae, of rays in the order Myliobatiformes.

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Wrasse

The wrasses are a family, Labridae, of marine fish, many of which are brightly colored.

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Zoology

ZoologyThe pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon.

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See also

Dasyatis

• Atlantic stingray
• Blue stingray
• Bluntnose stingray
• Broad stingray
• Common stingray
• Dasyatis
• Dasyatis hastata
• Dasyatis marmorata
• Dasyatis ushiei
• Giant stumptail stingray
• Groovebelly stingray
• Multispine giant stingray
• Pitted stingray
• Short-tail stingray
• Smalleye stingray
• Southern stingray
• Tethytrygon
• Thorntail stingray
• Tortonese's stingray

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_stingray

Also known as Bathytoshia lata, Dasyatis lata, Dasyatis latus, Dasyatis lubricus, Dasyatis sciera, Hawaiian stingray, Trygon lata.

, Type (biology), Vulnerable species, Whiptail stingray, Wrasse, Zoology.