humerosa??

[payara]

i have been looking back at old threads trying to find out what a ray i got a few years back is. (no pics, ray was in my care for all of a week)

i originally thought it to be a humerosa, but after looking at pics of p. humerosa i am kinda confused to what a TRUE humerosa is. seems to be kind of a fall back to any brown ray without proper id? is there any true p. humerosa species or subspecies?

 

[payara]

ha question asnwered... looked at the great sticky by miles. and the picture of the sting ray i was talking about is the one he posted.


any other pics+ other info?

 

[FishDog]

I don't think anyone really knows what is a humerosa and what is not. It is not as simple as a motoro that has many patterns but still has a similar look. The pic miles has posted in my opinion is not a humerosa but a dumerilli. This rays is sometimes called a false flower ray. The tell tale sign is the half tiger stripes on the tail and the flower pattern.

 

[payara]

so is a humerosa still an valid species? or was it ever? is there a holotype for this particular species ?

 

[Nic]

humerosa is species... the profile in the sticky pretty much somes them up... anything specific you wanna know?

 

[Miles]

alot of confusion about the ID of the humerosa, dumerelli, orbignyi and other brown rays from Colombia and Peru.. there are a few distinguishing characteristics that you can use to try to classify them, but even then it's not always for sure.. the pattern isn't a good way to tell them apart as they are very polymorphic and interbreed often in the wild