- Animals
- ›Chordates
- ›Vertebrates
- ›Cartilaginous Fishes
- ›Sharks and Rays
- ›Rays
- ›Stingrays
- ›Whiptail Stingrays
- ›Whiprays and allies
- ›Urogymnus
Mangrove Whipray
Urogymnus granulatus
The mangrove whipray or whitetail stingray (Urogymnus granulatus) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae. It is widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific region from the Red Sea to northern Australia and Micronesia. A benthic inhabitant of shallow inshore waters, juvenile mangrove whiprays favor mangrove and estuarine habitats, while adults favor sandy to rocky areas in lagoons and coral reefs. This species can be identified by its thick, oval pectoral fin disc that is dark...
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Urogymnus granulatus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 623874.