Blue-spotted Stingray
Taeniura lymma
Category: Sharks & Rays
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Elasmobranchii
- Order
- Myliobatiformes
- Family
- Dasyatidae
- Genus
- Taeniura
Where to Find
Found in 20 diving areas across 14 countries and 5 regions.
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 1 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 9 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 85 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 4 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 2 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 6 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 1 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 3 records
- Mabul & Kapalai, Malaysia - 1 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 4 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 4 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 4 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 4 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 2 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 2 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 2 records