#2028 · 🦈 sharks & rays
Southern Fiddler
🇳🇱 Ekstervioolrog ·Trygonorrhina dumerilii
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © J. Martin Crossley · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 2. © J. Martin Crossley · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Sascha Schulz · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © J. Martin Crossley · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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- 6. © Phil W · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © J. Martin Crossley · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 8. © Ken · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © marciariederer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Gavin Mathews · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Trygonorrhina dumerilii , the southern fiddler ray , is a species of cartilaginous fish in the Trygonorrhinidae family. The species is medium-sized with mainly yellow, black, and white colours. T. dumerilii has a maximum size of 1 m (3 ft 3 in), and is common in southern Australia and also the eastern parts of the Bass Strait. T. dumerilii is rated least concern on the IUCN Red List.
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.
- 3,957 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by François-Louis Laporte, comte de Castelnau in 1873 (153 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Southern Fiddler
- Nederlands
- Ekstervioolrog
- scientific name
- Trygonorrhina dumerilii
- class
- Chondrichthyes
- order
- Rhinopristiformes
- family
- Trygonorrhinidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 3,957
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1873 by François-Louis Laporte, comte de Castelnau
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Trygonorrhinidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 530756, Wikidata Q21348719, GBIF 7009918, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.