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—cownose ray, American cownose ray
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Lesueur, 1817
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<emphasis id="B94C3B7E6672FFC2FF0B055D696F9A79" bold="true" box="[151,305,589,616]" pageId="20" pageNumber="301">Distribution.</emphasis>
This species occurs throughout the northern GOM in shallow waters, including bays and estuaries. Although it can be found from the Texas/
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Jones
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The first record of this species occurring in the northern
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Recent studies (
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Naylor
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Jones
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) have indicated the presence of a second rhinopterid species,
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<emphasis id="B94C3B7E6672FFC2FEE004816ADA9BBA" box="[380,644,913,939]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="301">Rhinoptera brasiliensis</emphasis>
Müller, 1836
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, in the northern GOM (see below). The two species are morphologically very similar and therefore difficult to differentiate without detailed examination and/or genetic verification. It is likely, based upon historic reports (
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,
<bibRefCitation id="EFA99A9D6672FFC2FBD404CA6D029BE2" author="Acero, A. P. &amp; Garzon, J. F." box="[1096,1372,985,1012]" pageId="20" pageNumber="301" pagination="9 - 11" refId="ref15293" refString="Acero, A. P. &amp; Garzon, J. F. (1982) On an interesting specimen of cow nose ray (Pisces: Rhinopteridae) from the colombian Caribbean. Boletim do Instituto Oceanografico da Universidade de Sao Paulo, 31 (2), 9 - 11. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0373 - 55241982000200003" type="journal article" year="1982">Acero and Garzon 1982</bibRefCitation>
,
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), that
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<emphasis id="B94C3B7E6672FFC2FE4A04ED6A839C06" box="[470,733,1021,1047]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="301">Rhinoptera brasiliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been present in the northern GOM for several decades, if not longer, bringing into question the validity of reports and research focusing on this species without confirming species identity (
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Jones
<emphasis id="B94C3B7E6672FFC2FE060356698C9C4E" box="[410,466,1093,1119]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="301">et al.</emphasis>
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). Care should be taken in applying the results of research focused on this species in the northern GOM until species-specific results can be obtained and compared.
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<emphasis id="B94C3B7E6672FFC2FF5B039D699F9CB9" bold="true" box="[199,449,1165,1192]" pageId="20" pageNumber="301">Conservation Status.</emphasis>
Near Threatened, although this status will likely change given the recent identification of a congener co-occurring throughout most of the species range.
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