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Hypanus americanus 447367236🐟

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SpeciesMyliobatiformesDasyatidae
Sharks & rays

🐟Southern stingray

Hypanus americanus (Hildebrand & Schroeder, 1928)

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≈ 2.2× your weight
Also called
Hypanus americanus
Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
136 kg
Body length
0.9 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
28 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Southern stingray

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
136 kgmaximum recorded
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Body length
0.9 mrecord 2 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Maximum lifespan
28 yearsmaximum recorded
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Trophic level
3.54
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 3.54 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
traumatogenic
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
136 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Southern stingray yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classElasmobranchii
  4. ›orderMyliobatiformes
  5. ›familyDasyatidae
  6. ›genusHypanus
  7. ›speciesHypanus americanus
Full lineage
  1. classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
  2. subclassElasmobranchii
  3. superorderBatoidea
  4. orderMyliobatiformes
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
  7. subclassElasmobranchii
  8. superorderBatoidea
  9. orderMyliobatiformes
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Hypanus americanus (de), Hypanus americanus (it), Hypanus americanus (es), Hypanus americanus (fr), Hypanus americanus (bg), Hypanus americanus (ru) … and 10 more languages
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Hypanus americanus 447367236Hypanus americanus 338802145
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