Yellow stingray: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the yellow stingray lives – recorded in 9 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Urobatis jamaicensis
Group	Rays, skates & chimaeras
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	9 countries
Continents	North America, South America
Class	Cartilaginous fish
Order	Myliobatiformes
Family	Urotrygonidae

Where does the yellow stingray live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the yellow stingray in 9 countries and territories across North America and South America. Wikidata gives its range as: Brazil.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the yellow stingray endangered?

The yellow stingray’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the yellow stingray?

The yellow stingray (Urobatis jamaicensis) is a cartilaginous fish in the order Myliobatiformes and the family Urotrygonidae, genus Urobatis. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the yellow stingray

The yellow stingray (Urobatis jamaicensis) is a species of stingray in the family Urotrygonidae, found in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to Trinidad. This bottom-dwelling species inhabits sandy, muddy, or seagrass bottoms in shallow inshore waters, commonly near coral reefs.

Female yellow stingrays are larger than males. Females reach about a maximum length of about 26 inches whereas the male will reach a maximum length of about 15 inches across. The yellow stingray has a round pectoral fin disc and a short tail with a well-developed caudal fin. It has a highly variable but distinctive dorsal color pattern consisting of either light-on-dark or dark-on-light reticulations forming spots and blotches, and can rapidly change the tonality of this coloration to improve its camouflage.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Yellow stingray (revision 1355308990), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q1583677 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).