Photo: Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 1.2 m wide
- 🌊 sandy lagoon bottoms
This stingray has an almost diamond-shaped disc, brown-grey on top and white underneath. Its slender tail bears one or more venomous spines, so avoid stepping on it. It rests half-buried in the sand and feeds on small fish, crustaceans and molluscs.
Did you know?
Fai is the Polynesian word for rays: you find it in the species' scientific name and in the Tahitian names fai iʻu and fai manu.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Raie pastenague.
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