#2051 · 🦈 sharks & rays

Broad Cowtail Stingray

Pastinachus ater

VUvulnerable 🦈 Sharks & rays 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Luis P. B. · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Luis P. B. · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Ian Banks · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Ian Banks · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Ian Banks · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Richard Fuller · CC0
7. Calliope - Pt B, AU-QL, AU:© Elijah Winger · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Weipa, QLD, AU:© Cemone Hedges · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 1 Robinson St, Coral Bay WA 6701, Australia:© Scott Plume · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Kilifi, KE:© Peter Musila · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Pastinachus ater is een vissensoort uit de familie van de pijlstaartroggen (Dasyatidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1883 door Macleay.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,576iNaturalist observations
threat VUvulnerable

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.
1,576 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.