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Dasyatidae
Bengal whipray
Brevitrygon walga
Mangrove seabeds under heavy fishing pressure
Brevitrygon walga, the dwarf whipray or mangrove whipray, is a small stingray, a cartilaginous fish in the family Dasyatidae. It is a demersal fish and is found over the continental and insular shelf of the west central Pacific Ocean where it is heavily fished. The IUCN has assessed it as being "near-threatened".
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Stingrays
- Family
- Dasyatidae
- Genus
- Brevitrygon
- Maximum length
- 20.3 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Distribution
- Indian Ocean: eastern India (Bay of Bengal, Madras), Bangladesh to Myanmar (East of Bok Ye-gan).
- Conservation status
- NTNear Threatened

