Pteroplatytrygon violacea (Bonaparte, 1832)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 28

Pteroplatytrygon violacea (Bonaparte, 1832) .

Pelagic Stingray. To at least 80 cm (31.4 in) DW (Weigman 2016) in marine waters, and to 96 cm (37.8 in) DW in captivity ( Mollet et al. 2002); 163 cm (64.2 in) TL ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands ( Savinykh 1998); British Columbia ( Peden and Jamieson 1988) to Baja California to central Chile ( Ebert 2003), and Islas Galápagos ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Depth: surface to 381 m (1,250 ft) over deep water (min.: Love et al. 2005; max.: Mundy 2005).