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The roughtail stingray,Dasyatis centroura, is recorded from Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, for the first time. The specimen, an average-sized adult female, was 35 1/4 inches broad and weighed 56 pounds. The reproductive tract contained three large heavily yolked eggs in the left ovary and the specimen probably had just become sexually mature. The stomach contained parts of spot and menhaden and other fish remains.
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Contribution No. 143, Maryland Department of Research and Education. Solomons, Maryland.
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Mansueti, R.J. Comments on the roughtail stingray,Dasyatis centroura, in Maryland waters. Chesapeake Science 1, 76–77 (1960). https://doi.org/10.2307/1350543
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