Longtail butterfly ray

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Longtail butterfly ray
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Rajiformes
Family: Gymnuridae
Genus: Gymnura
Species: G. poecilura
Binomial name
Gymnura poecilura
(Shaw, 1804)

The longtail butterfly ray (Gymnura poecilura) is a species of fish in the Gymnuridae family. It is found in China, Egypt, Eritrea, French Polynesia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Thailand, Vietnam, Yemen, and possibly Djibouti. Its natural habitats are open seas, shallow seas, subtidal aquatic beds, coral reefs, estuarine waters, intertidal marshes, and coastal saline lagoons.

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