:Hemitrygon

{{Short description|Genus of cartilaginous fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Dasyatis bennettii kerala.jpg

| image_caption = H. bennettii

| taxon = Hemitrygon

| authority = Müller & Henle, 1838

| type_species = Trygon bennettii

| type_species_authority = Müller & Henle, 1841

| synonyms =*Toshia Whitley, 1933

}}

Hemitrygon is a genus of stingrays in the family Dasyatidae from marine, brackish and freshwater habitats in the central Indo-Pacific and northwest Pacific regions. The genus was formerly regarded as a junior synonym of the genus Dasyatis.{{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}}

Species

The taxonomy of Hemitrygon requires revision, as some existing species may be synonyms and there may be undescribed species. H. yemenensis was described in 2020 from materials collected nearly 120 years ago and its status in the wild is unknown.{{Cite journal|last1=Moore|first1=Alec B. M.|last2=Last|first2=Peter R.|last3=Naylor|first3=Gavin J. P.|date=2020-07-23|title=Hemitrygon yemenensis sp. nov., a new species of stingray (Myliobatoidea: Dasyatidae) from the northwestern Indian Ocean|url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4819.2.8|journal=Zootaxa|language=en|volume=4819|issue=2|pages=364–374|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4819.2.8|pmid=33055664 |issn=1175-5334}}

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