#2023 · 🦈 sharks & rays

Southern Stingray

Hypanus americanus

NTnear threatened 🦈 Sharks & rays 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The southern stingray ( Dasyatis americana ) is a whiptail stingray found in tropical and subtropical waters of the Western Atlantic Ocean from New Jersey to southern Brazil. It has a flat, diamond-shaped disc, with a mud brown, olive, and grey dorsal surface and white underbelly (ventral surface). The barb on its tail is serrated and covered in a venomous mucous, used for self-defense.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,997iNaturalist observations
threat NTnear threatened

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).