{{Short description|Genus of cartilaginous fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Urobatis pardalis.jpg | image_caption = ''Urobatis pardalis'' | taxon = Urobatis | authority = Garman, 1913 | type_species = ''Raia'' (''Leiobatus'') ''sloani'' | type_species_authority = Blainville, 1816 }}
'''''Urobatis''''' is a genus of the family Urotrygonidae. These rays live in the tropical and warm temperate coastal waters of the Americas(Costa Rica, Mexico, the Bahamas, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Anguilla, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and the United States).
==Species== There are currently seven recognized species in this genus: * ''Urobatis concentricus'' <small>R. C. Osburn & J. T. Nichols, 1916</small> (Bullseye round stingray) * ''Urobatis halleri'' <small>J. G. Cooper, 1863</small> (Round stingray) <ref name=Del-Moral-Flores2015/> * ''Urobatis jamaicensis'' <small>G. Cuvier, 1816</small> (Yellow stingray) * ''Urobatis maculatus'' <small>Garman, 1913</small> (Spotted round ray) <ref name=Del-Moral-Flores2015/> * ''Urobatis marmoratus'' <small>Philippi {Krumweide}, 1893</small> (Chilean round stingray) * {{extinct}}''Urobatis molleni'' <small>Hovestadt & Hovestadt-Euler, 2010</small> * ''Urobatis pardalis'' <small>Del-Moral-Flores, Angulo, M. I. Bussing & W. A. Bussing, 2015</small> (Leopard round stingray) <ref name=Del-Moral-Flores2015>{{cite journal |author=Moral-Flores, L.F.D. |author2=Angulo, A. |author3=López, M.I. |author4=Bussing, W.A. | year = 2015 | title = A new species of ''Urobatis'' (Myliobatiformes: Urotrygonidae) from the tropical Eastern Pacific | journal = Revista de Biología Tropical | volume = 63 | issue = 2 | pages = 501–514 | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274256903_Nueva_especie_del_gnero_Urobatis_%28Myliobatiformes_Urotrygonidae%29_del_Pacfico_oriental_tropical | doi=10.15517/rbt.v63i2.15746| doi-access = free | hdl = 10669/75287 | hdl-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.elasmodiver.com/Leopard_Round_Stingray.htm| title = Leopard Round Stingray ~ Urobatis pardalis}}</ref> * †''Urobatis sloani'' <small>Blainville, 1816</small> * ''Urobatis tumbesensis'' <small>Chirichigno F. & McEachran, 1979</small> (Tumbes round stingray)
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Category:Urobatis Category:Urotrygonidae Category:Batomorphi genera Category:Taxa named by Samuel Garman Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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