Species: Bathytoshia centroura, Roughtail Stingray
snout angular, not projecting

Bathytoshia centroura (Mitchill, 1815)
Roughtail Stingray
Disc rhomboidal, about as wide as long, angular at front, outer and rear corners abruptly rounded or angular; length of snout less than distance between spiracles, snout angular, not protruding beyond front margin of disc; nostrils with a large fringed curtain between them and the mouth; floor of the mouth has fleshy papillae; teeth with low oval or angular crowns; tail long and slender, 2.4-2.6 times body length, ending in a point; tail base broad, depressed; 1 large, serrated, venomous spine on top of tail; no tail fin or dorsal fins, tail without dorsal keel behind the spine and with a ventral fleshy ridge, height of the ventral ridge ½ that of height of the tail above it; top of disc with a patch of denticles on tip of snout, large tubercles on centerline and central part of disc (plus 2 short side rows) and along top and sides & underside of tail.
Upper surface dark brown to olive; lower surface white to cream.
Lives on sandy bottoms.
Reaches 260 cm in disc width, 360 Kg.
Depth range: 0-274 m.
West-Atlantic; Massachusetts to Argentina, but with a big gap between the Bahamas and southern Brazil.

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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Soft bottom only
- Estuary
- Mud
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Mobile benthic worms
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Sessile worms
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Live birth
- No pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Also in Brazil
- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- Extends N + S of GC
- Extends North of GC
- Extends South of GC
- GC non-endemic
- Island (s)
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Temperate (>35N)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 260
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 274