BrackishSaltwater
Sharpnose stingray
Maculabatis gerrardi
Dasyatidae, Urogymninae
Facts
Characteristics
- Length
- Up to 200 cm
- Body shape
- Other
Care
- Group
- Missing
- Smallest aquarium
- 167,500 liters
- Diet
- Missing
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Behavior
Water values
Smallest tank
Range
Native
Lives wild in Bahrain, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong SAR China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, and 11 more countries.
More about the species
Description
Likely confined to the inner continental shelf, over sandy and mud bottoms. Recorded from coastal waters and river mouths. Feeds on bottom crustaceans including shrimp, crabs and small lobsters. Ovoviviparous. Important food fish, the skin and flesh are dried or used to produce leather for purses and bags. Caught in very large quantities in the demersal tangle net, bottom trawl and trammel net fisheries. Utilized for its meat, skin (high value) and cartilage. It is parasitised on the dorsal skin surface by the monogeneans Dendromonocotyle citrosa, D. colorni, D. ukuthena and D. lotteri.
Other names
Other scientific names
- Dasyatis gerrardi
- Dasyatis jenkinsii
- Himantura gerrardi
- Himantura gerrardii
- Trygon gerrardi
- Trygon liocephalus
In other languages
- Banded whiptail ray, Bluntnose whip ray, Bluntnose whiptail ray, Whipray, Whitespotted whipray
Articles
All articles
Fish that get along4 min read
Temperament, fin nippers, fish that eat other fish, and fish that need the same water. And what the Harmony mark in the app means.
How to add new fish4 min read
From the store to the tank: how to get the fish used to your water, why you should add only a few at a time, and what to watch for in the first few days.
Quarantine for new fish3 min read
Why new fish should live in a tank of their own for a few weeks before they move in, what you need, and what to look for.
From freshwater to saltwater3 min read
What is different in a saltwater aquarium: salt, refractometer, live rock and corals. An introduction for anyone thinking of giving it a try.