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Blue-Spotted Stingray Up to 50 cm. Brown to olive with blue spots and small black spots. Short pointed snout and sharply rounded "wings". Tapering tail as long or longer than diameter of disc and marked with white bars. Seen in a sandy bottom area of the dive site Goby's Rock in Lankayan Island, Sabah (Borneo). Bluespotted stingray,Fall,Geotagged,Malaysia,Neotrygon kuhlii Click/tap to enlarge PromotedSpecies introCountry intro

Blue-Spotted Stingray

Up to 50 cm. Brown to olive with blue spots and small black spots. Short pointed snout and sharply rounded "wings". Tapering tail as long or longer than diameter of disc and marked with white bars. Seen in a sandy bottom area of the dive site Goby's Rock in Lankayan Island, Sabah (Borneo).

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The bluespotted stingray , also known as bluespotted maskray or Kuhl's stingray, is a species of stingray of the Dasyatidae family. It was recently changed from ''Dasyatis kuhlii'' in 2008 after morphological and molecular analyses show that it is part of a distinct genus, Neotrygon. The body is rhomboidal and colored green with blue spots. Maximum disk width is estimated 46.5 centimeters . It is popular in aquaria but usually not distinguished from the bluespotted ribbontail ray. The ribbontail.. more

Similar species: Stingrays And Eagle Rays
Species identified by Patomarazul
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By Patomarazul

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Uploaded May 18, 2016. Captured Oct 1, 2015 05:38 in Malaysia.
  • XZ-1
  • f/4.0
  • 1/500s
  • ISO100
  • 6mm