Narrowtail stingray

Pastinachus gracilicaudus

Twin pearl thorns pin the rounded disc

Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Pacific Ocean
South Asia
Other
Large
Tropical fish

Pastinachus gracilicaudus, the narrow cowtail ray, is a type of cowtail ray patchily found in Indo-Malay Archipelago. It lives in the continental insular shelves of up to 60 m depth.

Class: Sharks and Rays
Order: Stingrays
Family: Dasyatidae
Genus: Pastinachus
Maximum length: 74.7 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: other
Distribution: Western Pacific: This species is reasonably common but patchily distributed in both Malaysian and Indonesian Borneo, including Sabah, Sarawak, and western and northeastern Kalimantan. Possibly more widespread in the Indo-Malay Archipelago, east to at least the Wallace Line and the the identity of a specimen collected off Beruwala (Sri Lanka) needs confirmation.

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