Pregnant female spinner shark, Carcharhinus brevipinna(Muller & Henle, 1839) landed at Tharuvaikulam, Tuticorin
2013
Pelagic sting ray, Pteroplatytrygon violacea
(Boneparte, 1832) belongs to the family Dasyatidae
(largest stingray family) and the family comprises 8
genera and 89 valid species (Froese and Pauly, 2012).
In Indian waters, about 50 species of rays have been
recorded so far, of which 18 species belong to the family
Dasyatidae (Raje et al., 2002; 2007). In India, P. violacea
has been previously reported by Akhilesh et al. (2008)
and Zacharia et al. (2009).
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