sting ray
Dasyatis pastinaca
Category: Sharks & Rays
IUCN Conservation Status: VU - Vulnerable - facing a high risk of extinction in the wild
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Elasmobranchii
- Order
- Myliobatiformes
- Family
- Dasyatidae
- Genus
- Dasyatis
Where to Find
Found in 17 diving areas across 14 countries and 2 regions.
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 3 records
- Dubrovnik & South Coast, Croatia - 5 records
- Split & Central Dalmatia, Croatia - 13 records
- Vis & Biševo, Croatia - 12 records
- Larnaca, Cyprus - 2 records
- Corsica, France - 3 records
- South Coast, Ireland - 76 records
- West Coast, Ireland - 78 records
- Naples & Campania, Italy - 4 records
- Comino, Malta - 16 records
- Budva & Bar, Montenegro - 3 records
- Azores, Portugal - 29 records
- Canary Islands, Spain - 53 records
- Baltic Coast, Sweden - 1 records
- Tabarka, Tunisia - 1 records
- Cornwall & Devon, United Kingdom - 7 records