Taxon profile

family

eagle ray
Myliobatidae Bonaparte, 1837

kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Chordata - chordates » class Chondrichthyes - cartilaginous fishes » order Batoidei - rays and skates » suborder Myliobatiformes - stingrays

Scientific synonyms

Myliobatididae

Other names

= Eagle rays

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Included taxa

Number of records: 12

genus Aetobatus Blainville, 1816

genus Aetomylaeus Garman, 1908

genus Manta Bancroft, 1829

genus Mobula Rafinesque, 1810

genus Myliobatis Cuvier, 1816

genus Pteromylaeus Garman, 1913 - bull rays

genus Rhinoptera Cuvier, 1829

Fossil taxa

genus Aktaua Case, Udovitshenko, Nessov, Averianov & Borodin, 1996 ^†

genus Argoubia Adnet, Cappetta, Guinot & Notarbartolo Di Sciara, 2012 ^†

genus Arnomobula Leder, 2015 ^†

genus Brachyrhizodus Romer, 1942 ^†

genus Pseudaetobatus Cappetta, 1986 ^†

Links and literature

AQUATAB. World Wide Web electronic publication [family/297]

Plíštil J. (Ed.) (2009): AQUATAB. World Wide Web electronic publication [http://aquatab.net] [as Myliobatidae]
Data retrieved on: 17 January 2010

FishBase Family Summary [22]

FishBase Family Summary

The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [114692]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [http://www.irmng.org] [as Myliobatidae Bonaparte, 1838]
Data retrieved on: 11 February 2020

Australian Faunal Directory [e5676e0f-6797-475f-8474-9aa020cca5e1]

ABRS (2009-2019): Australian Faunal Directory [https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/home], Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra [as Myliobatidae]
Data retrieved on: 20 January 2015

Hanel L., Novák J. (2001): České názvy živočichů V. Ryby a rybovití obratlovci (Pisces), 1. Sliznatky (Myxini), mihule (Cephalaspidomorphi), paryby (Chondrichthyes), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 53 pp. [as Myliobatidae]
Data retrieved on: 2 June 2013

Hanel L., Novák J. (2002): České názvy živočichů V. Ryby a rybovití obratlovci (Pisces), 3. Paprskoploutví (Actinopterygii), kostnatí (Neopterygii) – máloústí (Gonorynchiformes), máloostní (Cypriniformes), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 120 pp. [as Myliobatidae]
Data retrieved on: 6 June 2013

Dyldin Y. V. (2015): Annotated checklist of the sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali) from waters of Russia and adjacent areas, Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 43: 40-91 [as Myliobatidae Bonaparte, 1838]
Data retrieved on: 19 November 2015

Sheiko B.A. (2013): On family-group names of extant fishes and fish-like vertebrates of the world, Explorations of the fauna of the seas. St. Petersburg: Zoological Institute RAS. Vol. 74 (82). P. 1–204. [as Myliobatidae Bonaparte, 1837]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2019

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Data source info

Froese R., Pauly D. (eds.): FishBase
[Data retrieved on: 14 May 2007]

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