Species: Urotrygon venezuelae, Venezuelan Round Ray, Venezuelan Round Stingray
snout length ~1/4 disc width
disc top covered with denticles
tail: > disc, 1 row thorns
Urotrygon venezuelae Schultz, 1949
Venezuelan Round Ray, Venezuelan Round Stingray
Disc is an oval, wider than long; snout with a small sharp point, relatively short (length before eyes ~25% of disc width); eye large, ~spiracle; pectorals continuous around head; tail slender, tapering, its length greater than disc length, with a large venomous spine; tail fin an elongate oval, upper lobe low (height < 1/6 its length), upper and lower lobes not confluent; upper surface of disc and tail covered with tiny denticles; a row of thorns along mid-back and top of front half of tail.
Upper surface uniform grey brown; lower surface white
Reaches 29 cm TL
Lives on soft bottoms in coastal waters.
Depth: 1-30 m.
Colombia to the mouth of the Amazon river.
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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 only
- Estuary
- Mud
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Mobile benthic worms
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Live birth
- No pelagic larva
- No pelagic phase
- 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 only
- Extends South of GC
- GC non-endemic
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Near threatened
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 29
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 30
