Taxonomy
The butterfly stingaree was described by Bernard Séret and Peter Last in a 2003 issue of the scientific journal Cybium; the specific epithet, "papilio" (Latin for "butterfly"), refers to its wide disc. The first known specimens were collected during a series of research cruises in the Coral Sea, conducted by France and Australia in the 1990s. An adult male 40 cm (16 in) long, trawled by the research vessel Coriolis, was designated as the holotype. This species seems to be closely related to the sandyback stingaree (U. bucculentus) and the patchwork stingaree (U. flavomosaicus).
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