Yellow stingray

Taxobox
name = Yellow stingray


image_caption = Yellow Stingray in Hol Chan
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
ordo = Rajiformes
familia = Urolophidae
genus = "Urobatis"
species = "U. jamaicensis"
binomial = "Urobatis jamaicensis"
binomial_authority = (Cuvier, 1816)
synonyms = The yellow stingray ("Urobatis jamaicensis") is a species of fish in the Urolophidae family. It is found in Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States, Venezuela, and possibly Brazil. Its natural habitats are shallow seas, subtidal aquatic beds, estuarine waters, and coastal saline lagoons.

ource

* Piercy, A.N., Snelson Jr., F.F. & Grubbs, R.D. 2005. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/60109/all Urobatis jamaicensis] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 03 August 2007.