#2030 · 🦈 sharks & rays
Haller's Round Ray
🇳🇱 Ronde doornrog ·Urobatis halleri
📍 Los Angeles, California, United States
📍 Orange County, CA, USA
📍 Orange County, CA, USA
📍 Rainbow Lagoon Park, Long Beach, CA, US
📍 Huntington Beach, CA, USA
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Stefanie · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Alex Bairstow · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © marv626 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © argyl1 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © soulflower_ecological · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Los Angeles, California, United States:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 7. Orange County, CA, USA:© Andrew Martinez · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Orange County, CA, USA:© Wendy Walker · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Rainbow Lagoon Park, Long Beach, CA, US:© bianchijocelyn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Huntington Beach, CA, USA:© Kai · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Urobatis halleri also known as the Round stingray or Haller's round ray is a species of round ray, family Urotrygonidae, found in the coastal waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is a small, common ray that feeds mostly on benthic invertebrates. On the beaches of southern California, it is responsible for numerous injuries to bathers, who are stung when they accidentally step on the fish. The wound caused by its venomous spine can be painful,...
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.
- 3,469 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by James Graham Cooper in 1863 (163 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Haller's Round Ray
- Nederlands
- Ronde doornrog
- scientific name
- Urobatis halleri
- class
- Chondrichthyes
- order
- Myliobatiformes
- family
- Urotrygonidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 3,469
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1863 by James Graham Cooper
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Urotrygonidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 114782, Wikidata Q1440212, GBIF 2420476, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.