REDESCRIPTION, DISTRIBUTION AND FOOD-HABITS OF THE INDO-PACIFIC DASYATIDID STINGRAY HIMANTURA-GRANULATA

Authors
ISHIHARA H HOMMA K TAKEDA Y RANDALL JE
Citation
H. Ishihara et al., REDESCRIPTION, DISTRIBUTION AND FOOD-HABITS OF THE INDO-PACIFIC DASYATIDID STINGRAY HIMANTURA-GRANULATA, Gyoruigaku Zasshi, 40(1), 1993, pp. 23-28
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Zoology
Journal title
Gyoruigaku Zasshi → ACNP
ISSN journal
00215090
Volume
40
Issue
1
Year of publication
1993
Pages
23 - 28
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-5090(1993)40:1<23:RDAFOT>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
The dasyatidid stingray Himantura granulata (Macleay), recorded previo usly from New Guinea, Caroline Islands, Santa Cruz Islands, and northw estern Australia, is redescribed from the first adult specimens, and t he range extended to the Maldive Islands. The stomachs of three of six specimens contained food, mainly small fishes (Siganus sp., Valencien nea sp., blenniid, pomacentrid, labrid, and gobiid) and sipunculids, b ut also an octopus and a calappid crab.