#2064 · 🦈 sharks & rays
Caribbean Whiptail Stingray
Styracura schmardae
📍 Mana 97360, Guyane française
📍 First Bight, Bay Islands, Honduras
📍 Caleta Xel-Ha, Cozumel, Q. Roo., MX
📍 Belize
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © luiS · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © wgsflyfish · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Clinton Little from Duluth, USA · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Amanda Chase · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Fishes · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. © Wayne Fidler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Mana 97360, Guyane française:© accidentalshrike · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. First Bight, Bay Islands, Honduras:© Daniel Moth · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Caleta Xel-Ha, Cozumel, Q. Roo., MX:© spinierformula4 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Belize:© piedmontgrowing · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The chupare stingray or Caribbean whiptail stingray , Styracura schmardae , is a species of stingray in the family Potamotrygonidae, found in the western Atlantic Ocean from the Gulf of Campeche to Brazil, including the Antilles. The presence of this species in the Gulf of Mexico has not been confirmed. It also occurs in the Bahamas. It usually inhabits sandy substrates, sometimes near coral reefs, and is an infrequent visitor to the Amazon River estuary. Leonard Compagno doubted...
base stats
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.
- 1,107 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Caribbean Whiptail Stingray
- scientific name
- Styracura schmardae
- class
- Chondrichthyes
- order
- Myliobatiformes
- family
- Potamotrygonidae
- IUCN Red List
- EN · endangered
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 1,107
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 883882, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.