Blue-spotted stingray  (Taeniura lymma)

Range

Found in the Indo-West Pacific, ranging from South East Africa, the Red sea and Arabian Gulf, to the Solomon Islands, north to southern Japan and south to northern Australia (3).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

Commonly found on the sandy or rocky bottoms of coral reefs, in shallow continental shelf waters, to depths of 20 metres (3) (5). While usually inhabiting the deeper reef areas, where it hides in reef caves, under tabletop corals and overhangs, this stingray moves up to shallower reef flats and lagoons at high tide. Unlike most stingrays, blue-spotted stingrays rarely bury themselves in the sand (6).

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