#2065 · 🦈 sharks & rays

Pink Whipray

Pateobatis fai

VUvulnerable 🦈 Sharks & rays 📍 outside Europe

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

what is it?

The pink whipray ( Himantura fai ) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, with a wide but ill-defined distribution in the tropical Indo-Pacific from southern Africa to Polynesia. It is a bottom dweller that generally inhabits shallow water under 70 m (230 ft) deep, in sandy areas associated with coral reefs. Individuals exhibit a high degree of fidelity to particular locations. The pink whipray has a diamond-shaped pectoral fin disc wider than long, with a broad-angled snout...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,079iNaturalist 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.
1,079 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.