Main identification features
- disc round, front convex
- sharp denticles: all disc and tail
- tan + black blotches
Denticled roundray
Disc round, front edge evenly convex with snout slightly projecting; tail relatively short (~52% of total length), base strongly depressed but without keels; tail fin relatively high (height ~27% of length of top lobe) with round tip, top lobe slightly shorter than lower lobe; tail spine reaches origin of top tail fin lobe; pupil with black triangular cover reaching down to its center; top of disc, tail, and top half of tail fin densely covered with moderate sized, sharp denticles with star-shaped bases, slightly larger towards middle of disc, not in rows, lower surface smooth.
Upper surface yellow-brown to tan; irregularly spotted with brown or black blotches ranging from size of eye to size of spiracle, densest near midline; underside white with wide dark edge of disc and rear edges of pelvic fins; tail fin dusky with dark spots, dark edges.
Size: to 38 cm.
Habitat: soft bottoms.
Depth: 0.5-85 m.
Nicaragua to Costa Rica.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 85 m.
Depth Range Min: 0.5 m.
Diet: mobile benthic worms; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves; octopus/squid/cuttlefish; bony fishes.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=14; Southern limit=8; Western limit=-90; Eastern limit=-81; Latitudinal range=6; Longitudinal range=9.
Egg Type: Live birth; No pelagic larva; No pelagic phase.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Demersal.
Global Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Mud; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Soft bottom only; Sand & gravel.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 38 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent only; Continent; TEP endemic; Continental TEP endemic; Panamic province endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Brackish; Marine.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;
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- Lopez , M. I. and Bussing, W. A., 1998., Urotrygon cimar, a new eastern Pacific stingray (Pisces: Urolophidae)., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 46(6):271-277.
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