Scientific name : Himantura uarnak
Family : Dasyatidae
Size : Up to 200 cm
Depth : Up to 50 m
Distribution : Indo-Pacific, Red sea, Eastern Mediterranean sea
Morphology : It has a disc-shaped body, brown to beige in colour, spotted with black on the back. The belly is light. The whip-like tail is twice the length of the body. It has a poisonous barb at the base of the tail.
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 red list : Vulnerable
