List of cartilaginous fish

List of cartilaginous fish
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Infraphylum:	Gnathostomata
Class:	Chondrichthyes Huxley, 1880

The following is the full list of the extant species in Class Chondrichthyes, or the cartilaginous fish. Members of this class have a backbone, gills, no swim bladder, jaws, and a skeleton made of cartilage, a soft, strong material as a replacement for bone.

Subclass Elasmobranchii: Sharks, rays, and skates

Superorder Batoidea: Rays, skates, and sawfish

Order Myliobatiformes: Stingrays, thornbacks and eagle rays

Suborder Myliobatoidei: Stingrays, eagle rays, and butterfly rays
- Family Dasyatidae: Whiptail stingrays
  - Genus Dasyatis: Rough stingrays
    - Sharpnose stingray (D. acutirostra)
    - Red stingray (D. akajei)
    - Southern stingray (D. americana)
    - Bennett's stingray (D. bennetti)
    - Short-tail stingray (D. brevicaudata)
    - Roughtail stingray (D. centroura)
    - Blue stingray (D. chrysonota)
    - Colares stingray (D. colarensis)
    - Diamond stingray (D. dipterura)
    - Estuary stingray (D. fluviorum)
    - Smooth freshwater stingray (D. garouaensis)
    - Sharpsnout stingray (D. geijskesi)
    - Giant stumptail stingray (D. gigantea)
    - Longnose stingray (D. guttata)
    - Pygmy roughtail stingray (D. hastata)
    - Groovebelly stingray (D. hypostigma)
    - Izu stingray (D. izuensis)
    - Bluespotted stingray (D. kuhlii)
    - Yantai stingray (D. laevigata)
    - Mekong freshwater stingray (D. laosensis)
    - Broad stingray (D. lata)
    - Longtail stingray (D. longa)
    - Merauke stingray (D. longicauda)
    - Daisy stingray (D. margarita)
    - Pearl stingray (D. margaritella)
    - Brazilian large-eyed stingray (D. marianae)
    - Marbled stingray (D. marmorata)
    - Pitted stingray (D. matsubarai)
    - Smalleye stingray (D. microps)
    - Multispine giant stingray (D. multispinosa)
    - Blackish stingray (D. navarrae)
    - Dwarf black stingray (D. parvonigra)
    - Common stingray (D. pastinaca)
    - Smalltooth stingray (D. rudis)
    - Atlantic stingray (D. sabina)
    - Bluntnose stingray (D. say)
    - Chinese stingray (D. sinensis)
    - Black stingray (D. thetidis)
    - Tortonese's stingray (D. tortonesei)
    - Pincushion ray (D. ukpam)
    - Cow stingray (D. ushiei)
    - Pale-edged stingray (D. zugei)
  - Genus Himantura: Whiprays
    - Black-spotted whipray (H. astra)
    - Freshwater whipray (H. dalyensis)
    - Pink whipray (H. fai)
    - Whitespotted whipray (H. gerrardi)
    - Mangrove whipray (H. granulata)
    - Hortle's whipray (H. hortlei)
    - Scaly whipray (H. imbricata)
    - Javan whipray (H. javaensis)
    - Jenkins' whipray (H. jenkinsii)
    - Roughback whipray (H. kittipongi)
    - Leopard whipray (H. leoparda)
    - Tubemouth whipray (H. lobistoma)
    - Blackedge whipray (H. marginata)
    - Smalleye whipray (H. microphthalma)
    - Marbled whipray (H. oxyrhyncha)
    - Pacific whiptail stingray (H. pacifica)
    - Round whipray (H. pastinacoides)
    - Giant freshwater stingray (H. polylepis)
    - Arabian banded whipray (H. randalli)
    - Chupare stingray (H. schmardae)
    - White-edge freshwater whipray (H. signifer)
    - Brown whipray (H. toshi)
    - Fine-spotted leopard whipray (H. tutul)
    - Whitenose whipray (H. uarnacoides)
    - Reticulate whipray (H. uarnak)
    - Honeycomb whipray (H. undulata)
    - Dwarf whipray (H. walga)
  - Genus Makararaja
    - Makararaja chindwinensis
  - Genus Neotrygon: Maskrays
    - Plain maskray (N. annotata)
    - Painted maskray (N. leylandi)
    - Ningaloo maskray (N. ningalooensis)
    - Peppered maskray (N. picta)
    - New Caledonian maskray (N. trigonoides)
  - Genus Pastinachus: Cowtail stingrays
    - Eastern cowtail stingray (P. atrus)
    - Narrowtail stingray (P. gracilicaudus)
    - Cowtail stingray (P. sephen)
    - Roughnose stingray (P. solocirostris)
  - Genus Pteroplatytrygon: Pelagic stingray
    - Pelagic stingray (Pteroplatytrygon violacea)
  - Genus Taeniura: Ribbontail stingrays
    - Round fantail stingray (T. grabata)
    - Bluespotted ribbontail ray (T. lymma)
    - Round ribbontail ray (T. meyeni)
  - Genus Urogymnus: Porcupine ray
    - Porcupine ray (U. asperrimus)
- Family Gymnuridae: Butterfly rays
  - Genus Gymnura: Butterfly rays
    - Peruvian butterfly ray (G. afuerae)
    - Spiny butterfly ray (G. altavela)
    - Australian butterfly ray (G. australis)
    - Twin-spot butterfly ray (G. bimaculata)
    - Longsnout butterfly ray (G. crebripunctata)
    - Gymnura crooki
    - Madeira butterfly ray (G. hirrundo)
    - Japanese butterfly ray (G. japonica)
    - California butterfly ray (G. marmorata)
    - Smooth butterfly ray (G. micrura)
    - Backwater butterfly ray (G. natalensis)
    - Longtail butterfly ray (G. poecilura)
    - Tentacled butterfly ray (G. tentaculata)
    - Zonetail butterfly ray (G. zonura)
- Family Hexatrygonidae: Sixgill stingray
  - Genus Hexatrygon
    - Sixgill stingray (H. bickelli)
- Family Myliobatidae: Eagle rays and manta rays
  - Genus Aetobatus: Large eagle rays
    - Longheaded eagle ray (A. flagellum)
    - Spotted eagle ray (A. narinari)
    - Naru eagle ray (A. narutobiei)
    - Ocellated eagle ray (A. ocellatus)
  - Genus Aetomylaeus: Stingless eagle rays
    - Mottled eagle ray (A. maculatus)
    - Brown eagle ray (A. milvus)
    - Banded eagle ray (A. nichofii)
    - Ornate eagle ray (A. vespertilio)
  - Genus Manta: Manta rays
    - Reef manta ray (M. alfredi)
    - Giant oceanic manta ray (M. birostris)
  - Genus Mobula: Devil rays
    - Pygmy devil ray (M. eregoodootenkee)
    - Lesser devil ray (M. hypostoma)
    - Spinetail mobula (M. japanica)
    - Shortfin devil ray (M. kuhlii)
    - Devil fish (M. mobular)
    - Monk's devil ray (M. munkiana)
    - Guinean devil ray (M. rochebrunei)
    - Box ray (M. tarapacana)
    - Bentfin devil ray (M. thurstoni)
  - Genus Myliobatis: Eagle rays (in part)
    - Common eagle ray (M. aquila)
    - Australian bull ray (M. australis)
    - Bat ray (M. californica)
    - Chilean eagle ray (M. chilensis)
    - Bullnose eagle ray (M. freminvillii)
    - Southern eagle ray (M. goodei)
    - Purple eagle ray (M. hamlyni)
    - Snouted eagle ray (M. longirostris)
    - Peruvian eagle ray (M. peruvianus)
    - Shortnose eagle ray (M. ridens)
    - New Zealand eagle ray (M. tenuicaudatus)
    - Japanese eagle ray (M. tobijei)
  - Genus Pteromylaeus: Bull rays (sometimes included in genus Aetomylaeus)
    - Rough eagle ray (P. asperrimus)
    - Bull ray (P. bovinus)
    - Aetomylaeus caeruleofasciatus
- Family Plesiobatidae: Deepwater stingray
  - Genus Plesiobatis
    - Deepwater stingray (P. daviesi)
- Family Potamotrygonidae: Freshwater stingrays
  - Genus Heliotrygon: Round river stingrays
    - Gomes's round ray (H. gomesi)
    - Rosa's round ray (H. rosai)
  - Genus Paratrygon: Discus ray
    - Discus ray (P. aiereba)
  - Genus Plesiotrygon: Smaller river stingrays
    - Long-tailed river stingray (P. iwamae)
    - Antenna ray (P. nana)
  - Genus Potamotrygon: Common river stingrays
    - Potamotrygon amandae
    - Emperor ray (P. boesemani)
    - Short-tailed river stingray (P. brachyura)
    - Thorny river stingray (P. constellata)
    - Largespot river stingray (P. falkneri)
    - Bigtooth river stingray (P. henlei)
    - Potamotrygon humerosa
    - Porcupine river stingray (P. hystrix)
    - White-blotched river stingray (P. leopoldi)
    - Potamotrygon limai
    - Magdalena river stingray (P. magdalenae)
    - Potamotrygon marinae
    - Ocellate river stingray (P. motoro)
    - Red-blotched river stingray (P. ocellata)
    - Smooth back river stingray (P. orbignyi)
    - Potamotrygon pantanensis
    - Rosette river stingray (P. schroederi)
    - Parana River stingray (P. schuhmacheri)
    - Raspy river stingray (P. scobina)
    - Parnaiba river stingray (P. signata)
    - Potamotrygon tatianae
    - Tiger ray (P. tigrina)
    - Maracaibo River stingray (P. yepezi)
- Family Rhinopteridae: Cownose rays
  - Genus Rhinoptera: Cownose rays
    - Rough cownose ray (R. adspersa)
    - Common cownose ray (R. bonasus)
    - Brazilian cownose ray (R. brasiliensis)
    - Flapnose ray (R. javanica)
    - Oman cownose ray (R. jayakari)
    - Lusitanian cownose ray (R. marginata)
    - Australian cownose ray (R. neglecta)
    - Pacific cownose ray (R. steindachneri)
- Family Urolophidae: Stingarees
  - Genus Trygonoptera: Australian stingarees
    - Yellow shovelnose stingaree (T. galba)
    - Eastern shovelnose stingaree (T. imitata)
    - Western shovelnose stingaree (T. mucosa)
    - Striped stingaree (T. ovalis)
    - Masked stingaree (T. personata)
    - Common stingaree (T. testacea)
  - Genus Urolophus: Western Pacific stingarees
    - New Ireland stingaree (U. armatus)
    - Sepia stingray (U. aurantiacus)
    - Sandyback stingaree (U. bucculensis)
    - Circular stingaree (U. circularis)
    - Crossback stingaree (U. cruciatus)
    - Chesterfield Island stingaree (U. deforgesi)
    - Wide stingaree (U. expansus)
    - Patchwork stingaree (U. flavomosaicus)
    - Spotted stingaree (U. gigas)
    - Java stingaree (U. javanicus)
    - Kai stingaree (U. kaianus)
    - Kapala stingaree (U. kapalensis)
    - Lobed stingaree (U. lobatus)
    - Mitotic stingaree (U. mitosis)
    - New Caledonian stingaree (U. neocaledoniensis)
    - Coastal stingaree (U. orarius)
    - Butterfly stingaree (U. papilio)
    - Sparsely-spotted stingaree (U. paucimaculatus)
    - Coral Sea stingaree (U. piperatus)
    - Yellowback stingaree (U. sufflavus)
    - Greenback stingaree (U. verdis)
    - Brown stingaree (U. westraliensis)
- Family Urotrygonidae: American round stingrays
  - Genus Urobatis: Round stingrays
    - Bullseye round stingray (Urobatis concentricus)
    - Haller's round stingray (Urobatis halleri)
    - Yellow stingray (Urobatis jamaicensis)
    - Spotted round ray (Urobatis maculatus)
    - Chilean round stingray (Urobatis marmoratus)
    - Urobatis pardalis
    - Tumbes round stingray (Urobatis tumbesensis)
  - Genus Urotrygon: American round stingrays
- Spiny-tail round ray (Urotrygon aspidura)

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