Yellow Stingray
Urobatis jamaicensis
- Class
- Chondrichthyes
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,554
- Most observed in
- 🇲🇽 Mexico
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The yellow stingray (Urobatis jamaicensis) is a species of stingray in the family Urotrygonidae, found in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to Trinidad. This bottom-dwelling species inhabits sandy, muddy, or seagrass bottoms in shallow inshore waters, commonly near coral reefs. Female yellow stingrays are larger than males.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Yellow stingray”.