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HWT-FISH-0013

Bennettis stingray

Dasyatis bennettii

(Müller & Henle, 1841)

Hemitrygon bennettii (the accepted name; the register carries it under the synonym Dasyatis bennettii), specimen KU 41506 (Ta Shi fish market, China, 30 November 2014), photographed fresh before preservation with a ruler and label. Determined by A. C. Bentley at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute. The photograph is not evidence of occurrence in Saudi waters.
Hemitrygon bennettii (the accepted name; the register carries it under the synonym Dasyatis bennettii), specimen KU 41506 (Ta Shi fish market, China, 30 November 2014), photographed fresh before preservation with a ruler and label. Determined by A. C. Bentley at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute. The photograph is not evidence of occurrence in Saudi waters. © University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute, KU 41506, CC BY 4.0, via GBIF · CC BY 4.0

Species DASYATIDAE Fish Name used in this encyclopedia

Quick facts

Saudi context in this record

Naming evidence

Local names recorded for their geographic scope: evidence that the name is used there, not a published record of biological occurrence.

Saudi territorial waters, Red Sea سفن

Occurrence records

The encyclopedia holds no published occurrence record for this taxon in Saudi waters yet.

Measurements and characters

Specimen total length total length (TL)

— not recorded in the source

Length of a measured specimen, not the maximum length of the species.

The source does not record a total length for this group.

No source is linked to this value.

Documentation status

documented from a photographed specimen — the source does not measure this group

No source is linked to this value.

Names

English common names

Bennettis stingray

Local names — Saudi territorial waters, Red Sea

  • سفن Local name Local name, verified — not nationally approved

Classification

DasyatisGenus DASYATIDAEFamily MyliobatiformesOrder ChondrichthyesClass ChordataPhylum AnimaliaKingdom

Conservation

No governed conservation assessment is published for this taxon. The absence of a published assessment is not an assessment of low concern.

Distribution

The encyclopedia holds no published scientific distribution records for this taxon.

This section shows source-backed scientific distribution only. Community observations are not listed here and no scientific distribution is inferred from them.

Others in this family

Taxa of the same family. That is a taxonomic relationship, not a statement of resemblance; the encyclopedia holds no diagnostic characters or lookalike relations yet.

Information not yet documented in this record

These fields are not yet documented for this taxon in the encyclopedia. Their absence describes the record, not the animal.

Scientific sources

Fishes from Territorial Saudi Red Sea Waters (2017). الطبعة الثانية 1438 H - 2017.
The scientific source above is the one cited for the facts, names and identifiers on this page. The platform and founder attribution in the footer is not a scientific source. Community contributions appear with their names and review status. The verification shown beside a value means the register checked the value against its cited source; it is not a scientific approval and not an independent peer review.

Record last modified: 2026-09-12