Styracura

{{Short description|Genus of cartilaginous fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Himantura schmardae xelha.jpg | image_caption = ''Styracura schmardae'' | parent_authority = Carvalho, Loboda & da Silva, 2016 | taxon = Styracura | authority = Carvalho, Loboda & Silva, 2016 | type_species = ''Trygon schmardae'' | type_species_authority = Werner, 1904 }}

'''''Styracura''''' is a genus of stingray in the family Potamotrygonidae and the only genus in the subfamily Styracurinae. The two species in this genus were formerly included in ''Himantura'', but were moved to ''Styracura'' in 2016 based on morphology and molecular evidence.<ref name=Last2016>{{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><ref name=Cavalho2016>{{cite journal |author1=Carvalho, M.R.d. |author2=Loboda, T.S. |author3=Silva, J.P.C.B.d. |year=2016 |title=A new subfamily, Styracurinae, and new genus, Styracura, for Himantura schmardae (Werner, 1904) and Himantura pacifica (Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941) (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=4075 |issue=3 |pages=201–221 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4175.3.1 |pmid=27811760}}</ref> Unlike other members of the family Potamotrygonidae, also known as freshwater stingrays, ''Styracura'' are found in the tropical West Atlantic and East Pacific.<ref name=Last2016/><ref name=Cavalho2016/>

==Species== There are two species in the genus:<ref name=Cavalho2016/> * Pacific chupare (''Styracura pacifica'') * Chupare stingray (''Styracura schmardae'')

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Category:Potamotrygonidae Category:Batomorphi genera