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Dasyatis chrysonota (Blue stingray; Marbled stingray; South African blue stingray; Sting ray)

Synonyms: Dasyatis chrysonota chrysonota; Trygon chrysonata; Trygon chrysonota
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Wikipedia Abstract

The blue stingray, Dasyatis chrysonota, is a stingray of the family Dasyatidae, found in the southeast Atlantic Ocean around South Africa to Mozambique, from the surface to 100 m. Its length is up to 75 cm. The blue stingray is ovoviviparous, 1 to 5 young being born in summer after a 9-month gestation.
View Wikipedia Record: Dasyatis chrysonota

Attributes

Female Maturity [1]  7 years
Litter Size [1]  6
Maximum Longevity [1]  10 years

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Dendromonocotyle citrosa[2]
Dollfusiella aculeata[2]
Onchobothrium pseudouncinatum[2]
Rhodobothrium pulvinatum[2]
Spongiobothrium variabile[2]

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Pollerspöck, J. & Straube, N. (2015), Bibliography database of living/fossil sharks, rays and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali) -Host-Parasites List/Parasite-Hosts List-, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 04/2015;
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0