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Urolophidae
Common stingaree
Trygonoptera testacea
Broad triangular snout rounded disc
The common stingaree (Trygonoptera testacea) is a species of stingray in the family Urolophidae. The most abundant ray in inshore waters off eastern Australia, it generally inhabits estuaries, sandy flats, and rocky reefs from the shore to a depth of 60 m (200 ft). This plain brownish to grayish species has a rounded pectoral fin disc with a broadly triangular snout.
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Stingrays
- Family
- Urolophidae
- Genus
- Trygonoptera
- Maximum length
- 47 cm
- Distribution
- Western Pacific: southern Queensland to New South Wales.
- Conservation status
- NTNear Threatened

