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 <small>R. C. Osburn & J. T. Nichols, 1916</small> (Bullseye round stingray)
- Urobatis halleri <small>J. G. Cooper, 1863</small> (Round stingray)
- Urobatis jamaicensis <small>G. Cuvier, 1816</small> (Yellow stingray)
- Urobatis maculatus <small>Garman, 1913</small> (Spotted round ray)
- Urobatis marmoratus <small>Philippi {Krumweide}, 1893</small> (Chilean round stingray)
- Urobatis molleni <small>Hovestadt & Hovestadt-Euler, 2010</small>
- Urobatis pardalis <small>Del-Moral-Flores, Angulo, M. I. Bussing & W. A. Bussing, 2015</small> (Leopard round stingray)
- â Urobatis sloani <small>Blainville, 1816</small>
- Urobatis tumbesensis <small>Chirichigno F. & McEachran, 1979</small> (Tumbes round stingray)
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