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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: In the North, above 41°S (Ref. 75710).
National Checklist: Argentina
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/ar.html
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Cousseau, M.B., D.E. Figueroa, J.M. Díaz de Astarloa, E. Mabragaña and L.O. Lucifora, 2007
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Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays) > Myliobatiformes (Stingrays) > Dasyatidae (Stingrays) > Dasyatinae
Etymology: Dasyatis: Greek, dasys = rough, dense (Ref. 45335).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; brackish; benthopelagic; depth range 5 - 80 m (Ref. 58338), usually 5 - 40 m (Ref. 58338). Tropical; 22°S - 41°S, 62°W - 41°W (Ref. 75710)

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Southwest Atlantic: Brazil and argentina (Ref. 75710).

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 65.0 cm WD male/unsexed; (Ref. 75710)

Usually found in sandy bottoms. Mobile invertebrate feeder, feed primarily on benthic mobile invertebrates, such as mollusks, crustaceans, and worms associated with hard or nearby unconsolidated substrate (Ref. 103985).

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Cousseau, M.B., D.E. Figueroa, J.M. Díaz de Astarloa, E. Mabragaña and L.O. Lucifora, 2007. Rayas, chuchos y otros batoideos del atlántico sudoccidental :34°S-55°S. Mar del Plata: INIDEP. 102 p. (Ref. 75710)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 123251)

Endangered (EN) (A2bcd); Date assessed: 01 July 2019

CITES (Ref. 123416)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 11.7 - 22.9, mean 15.9 (based on 98 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82805): PD₅₀ = 0.5002 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00617 (0.00260 - 0.01460), b=3.06 (2.86 - 3.26), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this Subfamily-BS (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.8 ±0.7 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Resilience (Ref. 69278): Low, minimum population doubling time 4.5 - 14 years ().

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): High to very high vulnerability (74 of 100) .

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