Animalia > Chordata > Elasmobranchii > Myliobatiformes > Dasyatidae > Brevitrygon > Brevitrygon imbricata

Brevitrygon imbricata (Sting ray; Schneider's scaly-stingray; Scaly whipray; Scaly whip ray; Scaly stingray)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The scaly whipray (Himantura imbricata) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, found in the tropical Indo-West Pacific oceans from the Red Sea and Mauritius to Indonesia. Its width is up to 25 cm, and it may reach 1.4 m in length. The scaly whipray is found in inshore coastal waters, typically in estuarine habitats. Its disc width is equal to its disc length, and the tail is shorter than the body. The ventral surface of the disc is entirely white. Young and adults feed on benthic invertebrates, and juveniles may be present in mangroves. Reproduction is ovoviviparous.
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Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Amphidromous

Prey / Diet

Nematopalaemon tenuipes (spider prawn)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Pateobatis bleekeri (Whiptail stingray)1

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Some aspects on the biology of Himantura bleekeri (Blyth) and Amphotistius imbricatus (Schneider) from Mumbai, SADASHIV GOPAL RAJE, Indian J. Fish., 54(2) : 235-238, Apr.-Jun., 2007
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0