{{Short description|Genus of cartilaginous fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = | image = Stingaree in seagrass.jpg | image_caption = Striped Stingaree (''T. ovalis'') | taxon = Trygonoptera | authority = J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841 | type_species = ''Trygonoptera testacea'' | type_species_authority = J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841 }}
'''''Trygonoptera''''' is a genus of round rays endemic to the waters around Australia. Müller and Henle defined ''Trygonoptera'' in 1841.<ref name="muller and henle2">{{cite book |author=Müller, J. and F.G.J. Henle |date=1838–41 |title=Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen |publisher=Veit und Comp |page=173–174}}</ref> It has often been considered synonymous with ''Urolophus'', but this has been refuted by recent studies.<ref name="seret and last">{{cite journal |author=Séret, B. and P.R. Last |date=2003 |title=Description of four new stingarees of the genus ''Urolophus'' (Batoidea: Urolophidae) from the Coral Sea, south-west Pacific |journal=Cybium |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=307–320}}</ref> ''Trygonoptera'' can be distinguished from ''Urolophus'' in that the outer rims of its nostrils are enlarged into broad, flattened lobes; the two also differ in aspects of the skeleton.<ref name="yearsley and last">{{cite journal |author=Yearsley, G.K. and P.R. Last |date=2006 |title=''Urolophus kapalensis'' sp. nov., a new stingree (Myliobatiformes: Urolophidae) off eastern Australia |journal=Zootaxa |volume=1176 |pages=41–52|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1176.1.4 }}</ref>
==Species== There are currently six recognized species in this genus:<ref>{{FishBase genus | genus = Trygonoptera| month = April | year = 2013}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Distribution |- | || ''Trygonoptera galba'' <small>Last & Yearsley, 2008</small> (Yellow shovelnose stingaree)|| Australia |- |180px|| ''Trygonoptera imitata'' <small>Yearsley, Last & M. F. Gomon, 2008</small> (Eastern shovelnose stingaree)||southeastern Australia, excluding Tasmania. |- |180px|| ''Trygonoptera mucosa'' <small>Whitley, 1939</small> (Western shovelnose stingaree)|| southwestern Australia from Perth to Gulf St Vincent. |- |180px|| ''Trygonoptera ovalis'' <small>Last & M. F. Gomon, 1987</small> (Striped stingaree)||southwestern Australia. |- | || ''Trygonoptera personata'' <small>Last & M. F. Gomon, 1987</small> (Masked stingaree)|| southwestern Australia |- |180px|| ''Trygonoptera testacea'' <small>J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841</small> (Common stingaree)|| eastern Australia, |- |}
==References== {{Commons category|Trygonoptera}} {{Reflist}}
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Category:Trygonoptera Category:Batomorphi genera Category:Marine fish of Australia Category:Taxa named by Johannes Peter Müller Category:Taxa named by Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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