Coastal Fishes of Sao Tome and Principe islands, Gulf of Guinea (Eastern Atlantic Ocean) - an update.
Peter Wirtz
Carlos Eduardo L. Ferreira
Sergio R. Floeter
Ronald Fricke
Joao Luiz Gasparini
Tomio Iwamoto
Luiz Rocha
Claudio L. S. Sampaio
Ulrich K. Schliewen
Zootaxa
2007
1523
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48
347BQ
DeKay, 1842
DeKay
1842
Elasmobranchii
Dasyatidae
Dasyatis
Animalia
Myliobatiformes
Chordata
species
hastata
A photograph taken by Jean Louis Testori near Pedra da Gale, PrincipeIsland, shows a species very similar to the western Atlantic Dasyatis hastata DeKay, 1842. Bernard Seret (pers. comm. to PW in May 2006) wrote that this stingray is probably a similar but distinct species.