Honeycomb stingray

Honeycomb stingray

 

Scientific name : Himantura uarnak

 

Family : Dasyatidae
Size : Up to 200 cm
Distribution : Indo-Pacific, Red sea, Eastern Mediterranean sea

 

Biology : It lives alone or in schools above the bottom in search of crustaceans, bivalves or fish. It is an ovoviviparous species (babies are born already formed. They have fed and developed in eggs that have hatched inside the female).

 

IUCN status : Vulnerable