Hypanus

Hypanus is a genus of stingrays in the family Dasyatidae from warmer parts of the East Pacific and Atlantic, including the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. The genus was previous regarded as a junior synonym of the genus Dasyatis.^[1]

Hypanus
H. say
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Myliobatiformes
Family:	Dasyatidae
Subfamily:	Dasyatinae
Genus:	Hypanus Rafinesque, 1818
Type species
Raja say Lesueur, 1817

Species

Eleven species are recognised by Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes.^[2] The placement of H. marianae and H. rudis within the genus is provisional, pending more thorough investigation.

• Hypanus americanus (Hildebrand & Schroeder, 1928) (Southern stingray)
• Hypanus berthalutzae Petean, Naylor & Lima, 2020 (Lutz's stingray)
• Hypanus dipterurus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1880) (Diamond stingray)
• Hypanus geijskesi (Boeseman 1948)^[3]
• Hypanus guttatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) (Longnose stingray)
• Hypanus longus (Garman, 1880) (Longtail stingray)
• Hypanus marianae (Gomes, Rosa & Gadig, 2000) (Brazilian large-eyed stingray)
• Hypanus rubioi Mejía-Falla, Navia, Cardeñosa & Tavera, 2025^[4][5] (Longnose Pacific stingray?)
• Hypanus rudis (Günther, 1870) (Smalltooth stingray)
• Hypanus sabinus (Lesueur, 1824) (Atlantic stingray)
• Hypanus say (Lesueur, 1817) (Bluntnose stingray)