Editing Myliobatiformes (section)

==Classification==
[[File:Porcupine ray from Lakshadweep JJH edit.jpg|thumb|Camouflaged [[porcupine ray]] ]]Myliobatiformes is classified as follows in ''[[Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes]]'':<ref name="ECoF">{{cite web |url=https://www.calacademy.org/scientists/catalog-of-fishes-classification/ |title=Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification |access-date=28 October 2024 |work=Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes |publisher=[[California Academy of Sciences]]}}</ref>

* Family [[Zanobatidae]] <small>[[Henry Weed Fowler|Fowler]]. 1934</small> (panrays)
* Family [[Hexatrygonidae]] <small>[[Phil Heemstra|Heemstra]] & [[Margaret Mary Smith|M. M. Smith]], 1980</small> (sixgill stingrays)
* Family [[Dasyatidae]] <small>[[David Starr Jordan|D. S. Jordan]] & [[Charles Henry Gilbert|Gilbert]], 1879</small> (whiptail stingrays)
** Subfamily [[Whiptail stingray|Dasyatinae]] <small>D. S. Jordan & Gilbert, 1879</small> (stingrays)
** Subfamily [[Maskray|Neotrygoninae]] <small>[[François-Louis Laporte, comte de Castelnau|Castelnau]], 1873</small> (shortsnout stingrays)
** Subfamily [[Urogymninae]] <small>[[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1851</small> (whiprays)
** Subfamily [[Hypolophinae]] <small>[[Ernst Stromer|Stromer]], 1910</small> (cowtail stingrays)
* Family [[Potamotrygonidae]] <small>[[Samuel Garman|Garman]], 1877</small> (neotropical stingrays)
** Subfamily [[Styracurinae]] <small>[[Marcelo R. de Carvalho|Carvalho]], [[Thiago S. Loboda|Loboda]] & [[João Paulo C.B. da Silva|da Silva]] 2016</small> (whiptail stingrays)
** Subfamily [[Potamotrygoninae]] <small>Garman 1877</small> (river stingrays)
* Family [[Urotrygonidae]] <small>[[John D. McEachran|McEachran]], [[Katherine A. Dunn|Dunn]] & [[Tsutomu Miyaki|Miyake]], 1996</small> (American round stingrays)
* Family [[Gymnuridae]] <small>Fowler, 1934</small> (butterfly rays)
* Family [[Plesiobatidae]] <small>[[Kiyonori Nishida|K. Nishida]], 1990</small> (deepwater stingrays or giant stingarees)
* Family [[Urolophidae]] <small>[[Johannes Peter Müller|J. P. Müller]] & [[Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle|Henle]] 1841</small> (round stingrays or stingarees)
* Family [[Aetobatidae]] <small>[[Louis Agassiz|Agassiz]], 1858</small> (pelagic eagle rays)
* Family [[Myliobatidae]] <small>[[Charles Lucien Bonaparte|Bonaparte]] 1835</small> (eagle rays)
* Family [[Rhinopteridae]] <small>D. S, Jordan & [[Barton Warren Evermann|Evermann]], 1896</small> (cownose rays)
* Family [[Mobulidae]] <small>[[Theodore Gill|Gill]], 1893</small> (mantas or devil rays)

{{notelist}}The family [[Aetobatus|Aetobatidae]] is recognised  by some authorities. It contains the genus ''Aetobatus'', which is otherwise part of Myliobatinae. <ref name="WhiteNaylor2016">{{cite journal|last1=White|first1=William T.|last2=Naylor|first2=Gavin J.P.|title=Resurrection of the family Aetobatidae (Myliobatiformes) for the pelagic eagle rays, genus Aetobatus|journal=Zootaxa|volume=4139|issue=3|year=2016|pages=435–438|issn=1175-5334|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4139.3.10|pmid=27470816}}</ref>

The families Myliobatidae and Rhombodontidae are sometimes grouped in their own superfamily, [[Myliobatoidea]].<ref name="Hoganson2019">{{Cite journal |last1=Hoganson |first1=John |last2=Erickson |first2=J. Mark |last3=Holland |first3=F. D. |title=Chondrichthyan and osteichthyan paleofaunas of the Cretaceous (late Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation of North Dakota, USA: paleoecology, paleogeography, and extinction. Bulletins of American Paleontology, No. 398: 1–94. |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |date=2019 |volume=398 |doi=10.32857/bap.2019.398|doi-broken-date=28 March 2025 }}</ref>