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Smalleye stingray
Megatrygon microps
Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).
- English
- Smalleye stingray
- Scientific
- Megatrygon microps
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Rays
- Family
- Dasyatidae (stingrays)
- Maximum size
- Up to about 3.2 m (total length)
- Depth and habitat
- Near the bottom and in the water column above it; also enters brackish water
- IUCN status
- DD · Data DeficientData Deficient (DD), assessed 2023
Description
A very large, plain stingray with a broad, thin, diamond-shaped disc and tiny eyes, reaching about 1.8 m across the disc and over 3 m long including the tail. It lives over sandy and muddy bottoms in coastal waters and river mouths. Little is known of its life, and it is rarely recorded anywhere in its range.
In the Maldives
All rays are protected in the Maldives (since 2014).
Sources
- fishbase.se /summary/Megatrygon-microps.html
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Smalleye_Stingray_(Dasyatis_microps).jpeg
Dhivehi name source: No Dhivehi name found in MRS 1997 (available chapters), FishBase (country: Maldives) or Dhivehi Wikipedia.