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 1 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.