Yantai stingray

Dasyatis laevigata is a Stechrochenart and lives on the shores of the Pacific Northwest, followed by China and Japan.

Features

Dasyatis laevigata has a diamond-shaped pectoral fin disc, the times as wide as long 1.2 to 1.3 and terminates in a blunt snout forward. Males reach 20 cm, females 30 cm disc width, which is very small for the genus Dasyatis. The tail is 1.4 to 1.8 times as long as the disc, wider at the base and running out of whip-like. On the tail top he wears a 4 cm long sting. The eyes are large and prominent, behind them about as large, elliptical spray holes. The top is yellow-brown, the underside white, gray yellow at the edges. On the upper and lower sides, there are irregular dark spots. The tail is dark brown with lateral yellow stripes.

Way of life

The Ray lives in the Yellow and East China Sea near the ground on the coast at depths of up to 50 meters and in estuaries. Little is known about his eating habits. He is ovoviviparous with litters of probably only one or two pups. Frequently he is introduced by coastal fishermen as by-catch and also marketed in China, while it is not reused in Japan mostly because of its small size. Because of the strong exploitation of its habitat and its low reproduction rate, he will be assessed by the IUCN with NT ( Near Threatened ).