Maculabatis randalli
{{Short description|Species of cartilaginous fish}}
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| name = Arabian Banded Whipray
| image_alt = The stingray Maculabatis randalli, displaying a vaguely kite-like shape, resting on sediment, photographed from above
| image_caption = Maculabatis randalli
| image = Himantura_randalli_pasni.png
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| genus = Maculabatis
| species = randalli
| authority = (Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & A. B. M. Moore, 2012)
| synonyms = *Himantura randalli Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & Moore, 2012
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Maculabatis randalli, the Arabian banded whipray, is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae.Last, P.R., B.M. Manjaji-Matsumoto and A.B.M. Moore, 2012. Himantura randalli sp. nov., a new whipray (Myliobatoidea: Dasyatidae) from the Persian Gulf. Zootaxa 3327:20–32.
It is native to the Persian Gulf. It reaches a length of {{convert|41.2|cm|in|abbr=on}}.
{{FishBase |genus= Maculabatis|species= randalli| month = February | year = 2015}}
Etymology
The ray is named in honor of John E. Randall (1924–2020), of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/myliobatiformes/ | title = Order MYLIOBATIFORMES (Stingrays) | access-date= 13 February 2022 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018}}
References
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Category:Fish of the Persian Gulf
Category:Taxa named by Peter R. Last
Category:Taxa named by Bernadette Mabel Manjaji-Matsumoto
Category:Taxa named by Alec B. M. Moore
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