#2039 · 🦈 sharks & rays
Yellow Stingray
🇳🇱 Jamaicaanse doornrog ·Urobatis jamaicensis
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what is it?
The yellow stingray ( Urobatis jamaicensis ) is a species of stingray in the family Urotrygonidae, found in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to Trinidad. This bottom-dwelling species inhabits sandy, muddy, or seagrass bottoms in shallow inshore waters, commonly near coral reefs. Reaching no more than 36 cm (14 in) across, the yellow stingray has a round pectoral fin disc and a short tail with a well-developed caudal fin. It has a highly variable but distinctive dorsal...
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.
- 2,670 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Georges Cuvier in 1816 (210 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Yellow Stingray
- Nederlands
- Jamaicaanse doornrog
- scientific name
- Urobatis jamaicensis
- class
- Chondrichthyes
- order
- Myliobatiformes
- family
- Urotrygonidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 2,670
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1816 by Georges Cuvier
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Urotrygonidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 49199, Wikidata Q1583677, GBIF 2420471, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.