Overview
Taxonomy
The Subfamily Myliobatinae is a member of the Family Myliobatidae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Myliobatinae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Deuterostomia
Grobben, 1908 - Deuterostomes
- Infrakingdom: Chordonia
(Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum: Chordata
Bateson, 1885 - Chordates
- Subphylum: Vertebrata
Cuvier, 1812 - Vertebrates
- Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
auct. - Jawed Vertebrates
- Class: Chondrichthyes
- Cartilaginous Fishes
- Subclass: Elasmobranchii
- Shark-Like Fishes
- Infraclass: Euselachii
- Cohort: Neoselachii
- Superorder: Batoidea
- Rays
- Order: Rajiformes
- Skates and Rays
- Family: Myliobatidae
- Eagle and manta rays
- Subfamily: Myliobatinae - eagle rays
- Family: Myliobatidae
- Eagle and manta rays
- Order: Rajiformes
- Skates and Rays
- Superorder: Batoidea
- Rays
- Cohort: Neoselachii
- Infraclass: Euselachii
- Subclass: Elasmobranchii
- Shark-Like Fishes
- Class: Chondrichthyes
- Cartilaginous Fishes
- Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
auct. - Jawed Vertebrates
- Subphylum: Vertebrata
Cuvier, 1812 - Vertebrates
- Phylum: Chordata
Bateson, 1885 - Chordates
- Infrakingdom: Chordonia
(Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Branch: Deuterostomia
Grobben, 1908 - Deuterostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Subfamily Myliobatinae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (4): Aetobatus · Aetomylaeus · Myliobatis · Pteromylaeus
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 78 species and subspecies in the Subfamily Myliobatinae.
Genera
Aetobatus
Aetobatus is a genus of fish in the Myliobatidae family. It contains the following species: [more]
Aetomylaeus
Aetomylaeus is a genus of eagle ray in the Myliobatidae family. It contains the following species: [more]
Myliobatis
Myliobatis is a genus of eagle rays in the family Myliobatidae. [more]
Pteromylaeus
Pteromylaeus is a genus of eagle rays in the family Myliobatidae. They are commonly known as bull rays, a name that is also used specifically to refer to Pteromylaeus bovinus, as well as colloquially for a number of other large Australian rays such as Myliobatis australis and Dasyatis thetidis. Two species are known. [more]
More info about the Genus Pteromylaeus may be found here.
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