Maculabatis

Maculabatis is a genus of stingrays in the family Dasyatidae from the Indo-Pacific. Its species were formerly contained within the genus Himantura.^[1]

Maculabatis
M. gerrardi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Myliobatiformes
Family:	Dasyatidae
Subfamily:	Urogymninae
Genus:	Maculabatis Last, Naylor & Manjaji-Matsumoto, 2016
Type species
Trygon gerrardi Gray, 1851

Species

The genus contains two groups, the "gerrardi-complex" containing spotted species and the "pastinacoides-complex" containing plain species.

• Maculabatis ambigua Last, Bogorodsky & Alpermann, 2016 (Baraka's whipray)
• Maculabatis arabica Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2016 (Pakistan whipray)
• Maculabatis astra (Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & Pogonoski, 2008) (Black-spotted whipray)
• Maculabatis bineeshi [Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2016 (Short-tail whipray)
• Maculabatis gerrardi (Gray, 1851) (Whitespotted whipray)
• Maculabatis macrura (Bleeker, 1852)
• Maculabatis pastinacoides (Bleeker, 1852) (Round whipray)
• Maculabatis randalli ([Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & A. B. M. Moore, 2012) (Arabian banded whipray)
• Maculabatis toshi (Whitley, 1939) (Brown whipray)