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View Mode View All Pictures Species Pastinachus sephen (Fabricius 1775)    Pastinachus sephen was originally described as Raja sephen by Fabricius in 1775. It belongs to the family Dasyatidae and subfamily Hypolophinae. It is commonly known as Feathertail or Cowtail stingray but has many other common names such as Cowtail stingray in Australia, Tsuka-ei in Japan, Cowtail ray in Papua New Guinea, Feathertail stingray in South Africa, Feathertail stingray in India. more common names It is found in Salt water.   Species Species   Higher Taxa Higher Taxa   Original Original   Subspecies Subspecies   Current Current   General General   Name History Name History   Related Pages Related Pages   Species of this Genus Species of this Genus   Species   sephen AuthorWI   Fabricius [J. C.] AuthorNI   Fabricius Qualification   --- Year   1775 Status   Valid Class   Chondrichthyes Chondrichthyes Order   Myliobatiformes Myliobatiformes Family   Dasyatidae Subfamily   Hypolophinae Hypolophinae Genus   Pastinachus Subgenus   --- Class   Chondrichthyes Order   Myliobatiformes Family   Dasyatidae Subfamily   Hypolophinae Genus   Pastinachus Original Name   Raja         Taxon Name   sephen Original Combination   Raja sephen Original Genus   Raja Original Genus Species   Raja sephen OriginalSubGenus   Raja Original Author   Fabricius Original AuthorWI   Fabricius [J. C.] Original Qualification   in Niebuhr (ex Forsskål) Original Year   1775 Original Family   Rajidae Original SubFamily   Hypolophinae Original Level   species Type Locality   Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and Luhaiya, Yemen, Red Sea. Primary Code   --- Primary Type   No types known Journal   Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål) Page   17, viii SubSpecies AuthorWI --- Qualification SS --- Current Subspecies AuthorWI --- Current Genus Species Pastinachus sephen Current Species sephen Current Genus Pastinachus Current AuthorWI Fabricius [J. C.] Current AuthorNI Fabricius Current Year 1775 Current Family Dasyatidae Current Subfamily Hypolophinae Hypolophinae Habitat marine.         Water Salt water Depth Range From 0 to 60 meters.     Current Summary   Valid as Pastinachus sephen  (Fabricius 1775). Dasyatidae: Hypolophinae.   Name History   •Valid as Dasyatis sephen (Forsskål 1775) -- (Dor 1984:17 [ref. 29757], Nakaya in Masuda et al. 1984:15 [ref. 6441], Allen & Swainston 1988:28 [ref. 25477], Nishida 1990:92 [ref. 19783], Nishida & Nakaya 1990:330 [ref. 20166], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:77 [ref. 27969], Larson & Williams 1997:346 [ref. 23967], Nakabo 2000:180 [ref. 25086]). •Valid as Hypolophus sephen (Forsskål 1775) -- (Compagno 1986:140 [ref. 5648], Paxton et al. 1989:43 [ref. 12442], Winterbottom et al. 1989:5 [ref. 13251], Monkolprasit & Roberts 1990:203 [ref. 20065], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:48 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:2 [ref. 23448], Goren & Dor 1994:5 [ref. 25356], Vossoughi & Vosoughi 1999:302 [ref. 25467], Nakabo 2002:180 [ref. 26001], Sujatha 2002:157 [ref. 26899]). •Valid as Pastinachus sephen (Forsskål 1775) -- (Last & Stevens 1994:409 [ref. 23873], Randall 1995:46 [ref. 22896], Allen 1997:48 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:24 [ref. 25488], Anderson et al. 1998:21 [ref. 23611], Myers 1999:39 [ref. 23965], Morón et al. 1999:150 [ref. 24253], Last & Compagno 1999:1494 [ref. 24639], Johnson 1999:718 [ref. 25471], Compagno 1999:496 [ref. 25589], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:583 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:101 [ref. 25191], Hutchins 2001:15 [ref. 25847], Allen & Adrim 2003:22 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S94 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:610 [ref. 27495], Bonfil & Abdallah 2004:50 [ref. 27735], Randall et al. 2005:118 [ref. 28745], Compagno et al. 2005:74 [ref. 29145] as cf. stephen, Paxton et al. 2006:194 [ref. 28995], Roberts 2007:286 [ref. 29413], Schwartz 2008:38 [ref. 36773] as Pastinacus s., Last & Manjaji-Matsumoto 2010:115 [ref. 30854], Last et al. 2010:121 [ref. 30855], Fricke et al. 2011:347 [ref. 31242], Naylor et al. 2012:75 [ref. 32267] see remarks, Larson et al. 2013:21 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:27 [ref. 32989], Psomadakis et al. 2015:103 [ref. 34104], Weigmann 2016:140 [ref. 34211] see remarks, Last et al. 2016:364 [ref. 34581], Last et al. 2016:596 [ref. 35010], Ali et al. 2018:304 [ref. 36183], Golani & Fricke 2018:16 [ref. 36273], Kumar et al. 2018:298 [ref. 36178], Suresh et al. 2018:50 [ref. 36495], Eagderi et al. 2019:10 [ref. 37020], Zajonz et al. 2019:60 [ref. 36871]). •Valid as Pastinachus sephen (Fabricius 1775) -- (Fricke 2008:12 [ref. 30182]). Common Names  Common Names Picture  Picture Places  Places Hierarchy  Hierarchy Pictures  Pictures First Publication  First Publication Collections Species Links  Species Links Name Combinations  Name Combinations References  References Page 1 of 1 (7 items). Click on a column heading to sort data. [1] Page size: 25 50 100 Drag a column header here to group by that column Species   Genus Species   Authorship   Status   atrus Pastinachus ater (Macleay [W.] 1883) Valid atrus Pastinachus atrus (Macleay [W.] 1883) Synonym fluviatilis Pastinachus fluviatilis (Hamilton [F.] 1822) Synonym gracilicaudus Pastinachus gracilicaudus Last [P. R.] & Manjaji-Matsumoto [B. M.] 2010 Valid gruveli Pastinachus gruveli (Chabanaud [P.] 1923) Synonym solocirostris Pastinachus solocirostris Last [P. R.], Manjaji [B. M.] & Yearsley [G. K.] 2005 Valid stellurostris Pastinachus stellurostris Last [P. R.], Fahmi [no initials] & Naylor [G. J. P.] 2010 Valid Begins with Contains Doesn't contain Ends with Equals Doesn't equal Is less than Is less than or equal to Is greater than Is greater than or equal to Like ('%', '_') Page 1 of 1 (7 items). Click on a column heading to sort data. [1] Page size: 25 50 100 Create Filter   Loading…