Lavery, SMontgomery, JCLe Port, Agnes2011-11-292009Thesis (PhD--Marine Science)--University of Auckland, 2009.http://hdl.handle.net/2292/9611Although common in coastal waters throughout the world, few studies have focused on stingrays of the genus Dasyatis. Short-tailed (Dasyatis brevicaudata) and longtail (D. thetidis) stingrays are temperate coastal stingrays with similar disjunct distributions, having been recorded from New Zealand, southern Australia and South Africa. This thesis investigated the phylogenetic relationships, population structure and behavioural ecology of D. brevicaudata and D. thetidis using a combination of molecular genetics, morphometric and meristic analyses, multiple tagging techniques and diving ecological surveys.Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htmThesisCopyright: The authorhttp://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/ClosedAccessQ112191381