common stingray
dasyatis pastinaca latin

It is one of the three most common stingray species sold in China.

It may be the same species as the common stingray (D. pastinaca).

The common stingray is found throughout the Mediterranean and Black Seas.

Such is not the case in China, where the Yantai stingray is one of the three most common stingrays brought to market.

Its attractive appearance and relatively small size has resulted in its being the most common stingray found in the home aquarium trade.

The common stingray can inflict a painful, though rarely life-threatening, wound with its venomous tail spine.

Common stingrays have been observed closely following each other in the presence of food, possibly to take advantage of other individuals' foraging success.

Though not aggressive, the common stingray can inflict an excruciating wound with its serrated, venomous tail spine.

Dasyatis pastinaca (Common stingray)

In addition, the two were found to be the second-most basal taxa in their genus, after the common stingray (D. pastinaca).

The predominant prey of the common stingray are bottom-dwelling crustaceans, though it also takes molluscs, polychaete worms, and small bony fishes.

The blue stingray (Dasyatis chrysonota) of southern Africa has long been regarded as a variant of the common stingray.

Common stingrays are caught incidentally by commercial fisheries across many parts of its range, using bottom trawls, gillnets, bottom longlines, beach seines, and trammel nets.

Known parasites of the common stingray include the flukes Heterocotyle pastinacae and Entobdella diadema, and the tapeworm Scalithrium minimum.

Surveys indicate that common stingrays have declined in the Mediterranean and the northeastern Atlantic, and may have been extirpated from the Bay of Biscay.

One of the three most common stingrays sold for food in China, the slow-reproducing Yantai stingray faces possible overfishing and habitat degradation, and its numbers appear to be declining.

The common stingray was reported to be the most basal member of the genus, other than the bluespotted stingray (D. kuhlii) and pelagic stingray (D. violacea).

The common stingray (Dasyatis pastinaca) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean and Black Seas.

Off the Azores, common stingrays are most abundant in summer and least abundant in winter, suggestive of a seasonal shift in range and/or depth as has been documented in other ray species.

The first formal scientific description of the common stingray, as Raja pastinaca, was authored by the father of taxonomy Carl Linnaeus in the 1758 tenth edition of Systema Naturae.

Prior to its description, the groovebelly stingray specimens caught off Brazil have been misidentified as either the bluntnose stingray (D. say) or the common stingray (D. pastinaca), neither of which in fact occur in the region.

However, the common stingray lacks the blue markings of the other species and differs in morphological and meristic characters, which led the latter to be definitively recognized as a separate species by Paul Cowley and Leonard Compagno in 1993.

The groovebelly stingray is one of the most common stingrays caught unintentionally by artisanal and commercial shrimp bottom trawlers, mainly off Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro states.

Like other stingrays, the common stingray is aplacental viviparous: the embryos are initially sustained by yolk, which is later supplemented by histotroph ("uterine milk", enriched with proteins, fat, and mucus) delivered by the mother through numerous extensions of the uterine epithelium called trophonemata.

Dasyatis pastinaca (Common stingray)

The common stingray (Dasyatis pastinaca) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean and Black Seas.