title: Maculabatis
text: # Maculabatis
  
  Maculabatis is a genus of stingrays in the family Dasyatidae from the Indo-Pacific. Its species were formerly contained within the genus Himantura.
  
  ## Species
  
  The genus contains two groups, the "gerrardi-complex" containing spotted species and the "pastinacoides-complex" containing plain species.
  
  * Maculabatis ambigua Last, Bogorodsky & Alpermann, 2016 (Baraka's whipray)
  * Maculabatis arabica Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2016 (Pakistan whipray)
  * Maculabatis astra (Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & Pogonoski, 2008) (Black-spotted whipray)
  * Maculabatis bineeshi Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2016 (Short-tail whipray)
  * Maculabatis gerrardi (Gray, 1851) (Whitespotted whipray)
  * Maculabatis macrura (Bleeker, 1852)
  * Maculabatis pastinacoides (Bleeker, 1852) (Round whipray)
  * Maculabatis randalli (Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & A. B. M. Moore, 2012) (Arabian banded whipray)
  * Maculabatis toshi (Whitley, 1939) (Brown whipray)
  