#2035 · 🦈 sharks & rays
Eastern Shovelnose Stingaree
Trygonoptera imitata
📍 Hampton Beach, Victoria, Australia
📍 Melbourne VIC, Australia
📍 Hampton Beach, Victoria, Australia
📍 Victoria, Australia
📍 Victoria, Australia
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Sascha Schulz · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Ken · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Ken · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Ken · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Sascha Schulz · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Hampton Beach, Victoria, Australia:© Ken · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Melbourne VIC, Australia:© bertie_a · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Hampton Beach, Victoria, Australia:© Ken · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Victoria, Australia:© Sascha Schulz · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Victoria, Australia:© Sascha Schulz · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The eastern shovelnose stingaree ( Trygonoptera imitata ) is a species of stingray in the family Urolophidae, endemic to coastal waters off southeastern Australia, excluding Tasmania. This species has a rounded pectoral fin disc wider than long, a fleshy snout forming an obtuse angle, and a relatively short tail terminating in a caudal fin. Its nostrils have prominent lobes on their outside rims and a skirt-shaped curtain of skin with a strongly fringed trailing margin between them. The...
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.
- 2,969 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Eastern Shovelnose Stingaree
- scientific name
- Trygonoptera imitata
- class
- Chondrichthyes
- order
- Myliobatiformes
- family
- Urolophidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 2,969
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Urolophidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 114622, Wikidata Q3284469, GBIF 2419411, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.