Hugo Santos and Marcelo de Carvalho formally described the groovebelly stingray in a 2004 volume of Boletim do Museu Nacional, giving it the name Dasyatis hypostigma, from the Greek hypo and stigma .
The Dasyatis hypostigma lives in the benthopelagic, brackish, marine, depth range 5 - 80 m , usually 5 - 40 m environment.
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cousseauae, Dasyatis hypostigma and Myliobatis sp.). Deep water specimens present in the survey area are not included in the species description section. More