Bluespotted stingray
Neotrygon kuhlii
Category: Sharks & Rays
IUCN Conservation Status: DD - Data Deficient - not enough data to assess extinction risk
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Elasmobranchii
- Order
- Myliobatiformes
- Family
- Dasyatidae
- Genus
- Neotrygon
Where to Find
Found in 23 diving areas across 16 countries and 6 regions.
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 4 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 3 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 1 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 27 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 2 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 2 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 3 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 2 records
- Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 6 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 6 records
- Tioman Island, Malaysia - 3 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 5 records
- Malapascua, Philippines - 5 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 2 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 12 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 6 records
- Koh Tao, Thailand - 2 records