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#2066 · 🦈 sharks & rays

Coral Sea Maskray

Neotrygon trigonoides

LCleast concern 🦈 Sharks & rays 📍 outside Europe
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © Claire Goiran · CC BY-NC 4.0
  2. 2. © Steve Smith · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
  3. 3. © mattdowse · CC BY-NC 4.0
  4. 4. © Claire Goiran · CC BY-NC 4.0
  5. 5. © Erik Schlögl · CC BY-NC 4.0
  6. 6. © Claire Goiran · CC BY-NC 4.0
  7. 7. © Claire Goiran · CC BY-NC 4.0
  8. 8. © Claire Goiran · CC BY-NC 4.0
  9. 9. © Amaury Durbano · CC BY-NC 4.0
  10. 10. © Amaury Durbano · CC BY-NC 4.0
Coral Sea Maskray, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Claire Goiran · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Neotrygon trigonoides , the Caledonian maskray , is a type of whiptail stingray found exclusively in Australia and New Caledonia.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 1,041iNaturalist observations
  • threat LCleast concern

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).

fun facts

  • No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
  • 1,041 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
Coral Sea Maskray
scientific name
Neotrygon trigonoides
class
Chondrichthyes
order
Myliobatiformes
family
Dasyatidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
1,041
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Dasyatidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 500873, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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