#2054 · 🦈 sharks & rays
Banjo Ray
🇳🇱 Zuidelijke vioolrog ·Trygonorrhina fasciata
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Richard Ling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © Richard Ling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © Richard Ling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 4. © Richard Ling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © Erik Schlögl · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Marine Explorer (Dr John Turnbull) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 7. © John Turnbull · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 8. © Marine Explorer (Dr John Turnbull) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 9. © Tony Strazzari · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Jack Crosbie · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Trygonorrhina fasciata , the banjo shark , fiddler ray , fiddler , green skate , magpie fiddler ray , parrit , southern fiddler ray , southern fiddler , or eastern fiddler ray , is a species of fish in the Rhinobatidae family. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitat is open seas.
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.
- 1,502 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johannes Peter Müller in 1841 (185 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Banjo Ray
- Nederlands
- Zuidelijke vioolrog
- scientific name
- Trygonorrhina fasciata
- class
- Chondrichthyes
- order
- Rhinopristiformes
- family
- Trygonorrhinidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 1,502
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1841 by Johannes Peter Müller
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Trygonorrhinidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 114627, Wikidata Q3768426, GBIF 2419095, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.