Longnose stingray

Dasyatis guttata

Dasyatis guttata is a Stechrochenart and lives in the western Atlantic on the coast between the Gulf of Mexico and Brazil.

Features

Dasyatis guttata has a diamond-shaped pectoral fin disk, which is slightly wider than long. The disc runs laterally in approximately a right angle, the front sides are concave and run in a slightly protruding snout out. It reaches a slice width of 2 meters, but usually rather 1.25 meters, where females are larger than males. The tail is whip-like and significantly longer than the disc. He usually wears a poisonous sting, sometimes zero or more. The top is olive, brown or gray, sometimes with darker spots, the underside is yellowish or white.

Way of life

The Ray lives near the coast in depths of more than 36 meters, mostly on sandy or muddy ground. He hunts shrimp, crabs and small fish bones like the grunt, but also molluscs such as snails, sea cucumbers, worms and polychaetes spray. Often he digs his prey with the help of the pectoral fin disc of the seabed. The species is ovoviviparous with litters of one to two pups that are born after a gestation period of five to six months with a slice width of 12 to 15 centimeters. The animals are in the whole distribution area - specifically, some partly as by-catch - fishing with gill nets, trawls and longlines. The meat of the disk is considered to be of high quality and is fresh, marketed frozen or salted. Away from Brazil are hardly stock figures why his risk status is assessed by the IUCN with DD (data deficit ).