honeycomb stingray

Himantura uarnak

Dense reticulations trail into black white tail bands

honeycomb stingray is known from Indo-Pacific as a fish. Records give a maximum length of 200 cm.

Class: Sharks and Rays
Order: Stingrays
Family: Dasyatidae
Genus: Himantura
Maximum length: 200 cm
Body shape: other
Distribution: Indo-Pacific: Persian Gulf (Ref.80050); Red Sea (and eastern Mediterranean via Suez Canal) to southern Africa and French Polynesia, north to Taiwan, south to Australia. Also in the Arafura Sea (Ref. 9819 ). Collected from the estuary of the River Ganges (Ref. 33178 ). This name has been used for a number of similar spotted species (Ref. 6871 ). Probably a species complex (Ref. 35766 ). Its identity has been confused in many publications and Micronesian specimens should be re-examined (Ref. 37816 ).

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