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Family GymnuridaeThe Butterfly Rays
Greek, gymnos = naked + Greek,tai = tail
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Descriptive Features
• Skin relatively smooth with small denticles
• Broad, diamond shaped ray
• DW is almost 2x TL• Short tail • Some with poisonous
tail spine• Dorsal fin present or
absent
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Tooth Morphology
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Order Myliobatiformes
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Taxonomy12-14 species in 2 genera
Aetoplata• A. zonura – Zonetail• A. tentaculata – Tentacled
Gymnura• G. australis - Australian• G. natalensis – Backwater• G. micrura – Smooth• G. altavela – Spiny• G. japonica – Japanese• G. poecilura – Long-tail• G. hirundo – Madiera (? validity)• G. bimaculata – Twin-spot• G. crooki• G. marmorata – California
– G. crebripunctata – Long snout– G. afuerae
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G. marmorata G. afuerae
G. crebripunctata
Gymnura debate
Gulf of California to Peru
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Largest Gymnura Gymnura altavela over 4m wingspan (>13ft)
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DistributionFound in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans
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Habitat
• Marine, rarely brackish• Tropical to temperate• Continental shelves• Demersal, benthic• Depths range from intertidal to100m • Prefers sandy and muddy substrates• Also found in brackish estuaries, hyper-saline
lagoons, coastal and neritic waters, bays, sandy beaches, and salt marshes
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Diet
• Teleosts • Crustaceans
– Benthic copepods, crabs, shrimps, prawns
• Mollusks– Bivalves, cephalopods,
gastropods
• Plankton• Polychaetes
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Predators
• Marine mammals• Hammerhead sharks• Larger fishes
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Reproduction
• Two functional uteri• Aplacental viviparous• Embryos initially fed with yolk, then uterine milk• Gestation ~4-9 months• One reproductive cycle per year• Fecundity assumed to be <10• Females commonly abort fetuses upon capture
(G. poecilura)
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Status
• IUCN status– 9 spp not in IUCN– 3 spp data deficient – 1 sp vulnerable –
A. zonura (declines of at least 30%)
– 1 sp near threatened – G. poecilura
• Population doubling time >14 years
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Major Threats
• Bycatch (shrimp trawlers)
• Low recruitment/reproduction
• High juvenile mortality
• Habitat degradation and loss
• Harvested for food
• Food trade
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Literature Cited• Bauchot, M.-L., 1987. Raies et autres batoides. p. 845-886. In W. Fischer, M.L. Bauchot and M.
Schneider (eds.) Fiches FAO d'identificationpour les besoins de la pêche. (rev. 1). Mèditerranée et mer Noire. Zone de pêche 37. Vol. II. Commission des Communautés Européennes and FAO, Rome.
• Bizzarro, J.J. & White, W.T. 2006. Gymnura poecilura. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 28 November 2007.
• Compagno, L.J.V., 1999. Checklist of living elasmobranchs. p. 471-498. In W.C. Hamlett (ed.) Sharks, skates, and rays: the biology of elasmobranch fishes. John Hopkins University Press, Maryland.
• Grubbs, R.D. & Ha, D.S. 2006. Gymnura micrura. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 28 November 2007.
• Last, P.R. and J.D. Stevens, 1994. Sharks and rays of Australia. CSIRO, Australia. 513 p. • McEachran, J.D. and B. Seret, 1990. Gymnuridae. p. 64-66. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A.
Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 1.
• Nelson, J.S. 2006. Fishes of the World, 4th ed. John Wiley and Sons, Inc, NJ. p 80.• Smith, W.D. & Bizzarro, J.J. 2006. Gymnura marmorata. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of
Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 28 November 2007.• White, W.T. 2006. Aetoplatea zonura. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <
www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 28 November 2007.• Wintner, S.P. 2006. Gymnura natalensis. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <
www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 28 November 2007.• Gonzalez-Isais, M and Domı´nguez, HMM. 2004. Comparative Anatomy of the Superfamily
Myliobatoidea (Chondrichthyes) With Some Comments on Phylogeny. JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY 262:517–535.