Species profile—Neotrygon australiae (bluespotted maskray)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes) → Dasyatidae (stingrays) → Neotrygon australiae (bluespotted maskray)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes)
- Family
- Dasyatidae (stingrays)
- Scientific name
- Neotrygon australiae Last, White & Seret, 2016
- Common name
- bluespotted maskray
- Type reference
- Last, P.R., White, W.T. & Seret B. (2016). Taxonomic status of maskrays of the Neotrygon kuhlii species complex (Myliobatoidei: Dasyatidae) with the description of three new species from the Indo-West Pacific. Zootaxa 4083(4), 533–561.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 22621
- Synonym(s)
- Dasyatis kuhlii
Neotrygon kuhlii - Alternate name(s)
- blue-spotted maskray
blue-spotted stingray - Conservation significant
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Dependant Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Marine
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=22621.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
