Southern Stingray
Hypanus americanus
- Class
- Chondrichthyes
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 2,761
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Near Threatened
Description
The southern stingray (Hypanus americanus) is a whiptail stingray found in tropical and subtropical waters of the Western Atlantic Ocean from New Jersey to southern Brazil. It has a flat, diamond-shaped disc, with a mud brown, olive, and grey dorsal surface and white underbelly (ventral surface). The barb on its tail is serrated and covered in a venomous mucus, used for self-defense.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Southern stingray”.