Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Author Love, Milton S. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu Author Bizzarro, Joseph J. 0000-0002-2412-9357 joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov Author Cornthwaite, Maria 0000-0002-1528-3272 maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Author Frable, Benjamin W. 0000-0003-4525-0671 bfrable@ucsd.edu Author Maslenikov, Katherine P. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-19 5053 1 1 285 journal article 2792 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 75ffcff3-6336-4f6a-8d0b-94c082519099 1175-5326 5578008 295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 Pteroplatytrygon violacea (Bonaparte, 1832) . Pelagic Stingray . To at least 80 cm ( 31.4 in ) DW (Weigman 2016) in marine waters, and to 96 cm ( 37.8 in ) DW in captivity ( Mollet et al . 2002 ); 163 cm ( 64.2 in ) TL ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983 ). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands ( Savinykh 1998 ); British Columbia ( Peden and Jamieson 1988 ) to Baja California to central Chile ( Ebert 2003 ), and Islas Galápagos ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983 ). Depth: surface to 381 m ( 1,250 ft ) over deep water (min.: Love et al. 2005 ; max.: Mundy 2005 ).