Pelagic Stingray

PTEROPLATYTRYGON VIOLACEA

These pelagic stingrays can catch sardines to eat. Like all stingrays, they have a poisonous sting at the base of their tail.

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Family

The Dasyatidae family

Size

2 meters wingspan

Distribution

This species lives in the north-east Atlantic, from the North Sea to the Gulf of Guinea, in the Mediterranean Sea, and in Polynesia

To discover during the layover