{{Short description|Genus of cartilaginous fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Himantura gerrardi karachi 1.jpg | image_caption = ''M. gerrardi'' | taxon = Maculabatis | authority = Last, Naylor & Manjaji-Matsumoto, 2016 | type_species = ''Trygon gerrardi'' | type_species_authority = Gray, 1851 }}
'''''Maculabatis''''' is a genus of stingrays in the family Dasyatidae from the Indo-Pacific. Its species were formerly contained within the genus ''Himantura''.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Last, P.R. |author2=Naylor, G.J. |author3=Manjaji-Matsumoto, B.M. |year=2016 |title=A revised classification of the family Dasyatidae (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes) based on new morphological and molecular insights |journal=Zootaxa |volume=4139 |issue=3 |pages=345–368 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4139.3.2 |pmid=27470808}}</ref>
==Species== The genus contains two groups, the "gerrardi-complex" containing spotted species and the "pastinacoides-complex" containing plain species. *''Maculabatis ambigua'' <small>Last, Bogorodsky & Alpermann, 2016</small> (Baraka's whipray) *''Maculabatis arabica'' <small>Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2016</small> (Pakistan whipray) *''Maculabatis astra'' <small>(Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & Pogonoski, 2008)</small> (Black-spotted whipray) *''Maculabatis bineeshi'' <small>Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2016</small> (Short-tail whipray) *''Maculabatis gerrardi'' <small>(Gray, 1851)</small> (Whitespotted whipray) *''Maculabatis macrura'' <small>(Bleeker, 1852)</small> *''Maculabatis pastinacoides'' <small>(Bleeker, 1852)</small> (Round whipray) *''Maculabatis randalli'' <small>(Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & A. B. M. Moore, 2012)</small> (Arabian banded whipray) *''Maculabatis toshi'' <small>(Whitley, 1939)</small> (Brown whipray)
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Category:Dasyatidae Category:Maculabatis Category:Taxa named by Peter R. Last Category:Taxa named by Gavin J.P. Naylor Category:Taxa named by Bernadette Mabel Manjaji-Matsumoto