Belongs within: Chondrichthyes.
Contains: Myliobatidae, Urolophus, Himantura, Dasyatis, Gymnuridae, Potamotrygonidae.
The Myliobatiformes are a group of rays with large pectoral fins combining with the head to form a broad disc, a slender tail often bearing strong stinging spines, and caudal and dorsal fins reduced or absent (Bond 1996). The fin disc is rhomboidal in shape with the head elevated and laterally demarcated in the more pelagic Mobulidae and Myliobatoidea but rounder with the head not strongly defined in the more benthic Dasyatoidea. The Mobulidae, manta rays, have the snout formed into bilobate cephalic fins positioned on either side of the large, transversely expanded mouth.
<==Myliobatiformes
| i. s.: Urobatis [Urotrygonidae]LC99a
| `--U. halleriY56
| HexatrygonHMM12 [HexatrygonidaeB96]
| `--H. bickelli Heemstra & Smith 1980 (see below for synonymy)CL99b
| Plesiobatis [Plesiobatidae]CL99a
| `--P. daviesi (Wallace 1967) [=Urotrygon daviesi; incl. U. marmoratus Chu, Hu & Li in Chu, Meng et al. 1981]CL99a
| Hypanus guttatusVF21
|--Mobulidae [Mobuloidea]CDZ93
| |--Archaeomanta Herman 1979C94
| | |--A. melenhorstiC94
| | `--A. priemi Herman 1979CDZ93
| |--Burnhamia Cappetta 1976C94
| | |--B. daviesi (Woodward 1889) [=Rhinoptera daviesi]C94
| | `--B. fetahi Cappetta 1985C94
| |--MantaM02c
| | |--M. alfrediG75
| | |--M. birostris (Walbaum 1792)M02c [=Raja birostrisM58; incl. M. banksiana Whitley 1936M58]
| | `--M. hamiltoniMH96
| `--MobulaCL99d
| |--M. alfrediVF21
| |--M. birostrisVF21
| |--M. eregoodoo (Cantor 1849)CL99d
| |--M. eregoodootenkee (Bleeker 1852)CL99d
| |--M. japanica (Müler & Henle 1841)CL99d
| |--M. kuhlii (Valenciennes in Müller & Henle 1841)CL99d
| |--M. mobular (Bonnaterre 1788) [incl. M. diabolus (Shaw 1804)]CL99d
| |--M. tarapacana (Philippi 1892)CL99d
| `--M. thurstoni (Lloyd 1908)CL99d
|--MyliobatoideaCDZ93
| |--MyliobatidaeM58
| |--RhombodontidaeCDZ93
| | |--Pucabatis Cappetta 1975GM01
| | | `--P. hoffstetteri Cappetta 1975GM01
| | `--RhombodusCDZ93
| | |--R. binkhorsti Dames 1881CDZ93
| | |--R. bondoni Arambourg 1952CDZ93
| | |--R. levis Cappetta & Case 1975CDZ93
| | |--R. meridionalis Arambourg 1952CDZ93
| | `--R. microdon Arambourg 1952CDZ93
| `--Rhinoptera Cuvier 1829 [Rhinopteridae]C94
| |--R. adspersa Valenciennes in Müller & Henle 1841CL99c
| |--R. bonasus (Mitchill 1815)M02b
| |--R. brasiliensisVF21
| |--R. javanica Müller & Henle 1841CL99c
| |--R. marginataCW01
| |--R. neglecta Ogilby 1912CL99c
| |--R. prisca Woodward 1907CDZ93
| |--R. raeburni White 1934CDZ93
| |--R. sewelliNM72
| `--R. steindachneriCW01
`--DasyatoideaCDZ93
| i. s.: Coupatezia Cappetta 1982C94
| `--C. woutersiC94
| ‘Raja’ duponti Winkler 1874 [=Cestracion duponti]C94
| Jacquhermania Cappetta 1982C94
|--UrolophidaeCDZ93
| |--Trygonoptera testacea Banks in Müller & Henle 1841LC99a
| `--UrolophusM58
|--Dasyatidae [Dasybatidae, Trygonidae]M58
| |--Urogymnus asperrimus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) [incl. U. africanus (Bloch & Schneider 1801)]LC99b
| |--MyledaphusG88
| |--HimanturaM58
| |--DasyatisM02a
| |--Pastinachus sephen (Forsskål 1775) [incl. Dasyatis gruveli Chabanaud 1923]LC99b
| |--TaeniuraM58
| | |--T. lymma (Forskål 1775) (see below for synonymy)M58
| | `--T. meyeni Müller & Henle 1841 [incl. T. melanospilos Bleeker 1853]LC99b
| |--Amphotistius kuhlii (Müller & Henle 1841) [=Trygon kuhlii, Dasyatis kuhlii]M58
| |--Neotrygon kuhlii (Müller & Henle 1841)MM14
| |--TrygonB80
| | |--T. dezignoi Molin 1861 [=Anacanthus zignii]B80
| | |--T. muricata (Volta 1796) (see below for synonymy)B80
| | |--T. pastinaceaH72 [=Dasyatis pastinacaY56]
| | `--T. walga [=Dasyatis walga]Y56
| |--Meridiania Case 1994C94
| | |--*M. convexa Case 1994C94
| | `--M. globidens [=Dasyatis globidens]C94
| `--Pteromylaeus bovinusTQ71
|--GymnuridaeCDZ93
`--PotamotrygonidaeCDZ93
Hexatrygon bickelli Heemstra & Smith 1980 [incl. Hexatrygon brevirostra Shen 1986, Hexatrematobatis longirostrum Chu & Meng in Chu, Meng et al. 1981, Hexatrygon taiwanensis Shen 1986, Hexatrygon yangi Shen & Liu 1984]CL99b
Taeniura lymma (Forskål 1775) [=Raja lymma; incl. Trygon halgani Lesson 1830, Taeniura lymma halgani, Discobatis marginipinnis Miklouho-Maclay & Macleay 1886]M58
Trygon muricata (Volta 1796) [=T. muricatus; incl. T. gazolae Agassiz 1843, Alexandrinum molinii de Zigno 1874]B80
*Type species of generic name indicated
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