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Baraka's Whipray
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Myliobatiformes
Family:	Dasyatidae
Genus:	Maculabatis
Species:	M. ambigua
Binomial name
Maculabatis ambigua Last, Bogorodsky & Alpermann, 2016

Maculabatis ambigua, Baraka's whipray, is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae. It is found in the Western Indian Ocean: from the Red Sea south to Tanzania and the island of Zanzibar. This species reaches a length of 90 cm (35 in).

References

1. Last, P.R., S.V. Bogorodsky and T.J. Alpermann, 2016. Maculabatis ambigua sp. nov., a new whipray (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from the Western Indian Ocean. Zootaxa 4154(1):66-78.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Maculabatis ambigua". FishBase. February 2015 version.

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