Sepia stingray
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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The sepia stingray has a small fin at the tip of its tail.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Sepia stingray
- Scientific name
- Urolophus aurantiacus
- Japanese name
- ヒラタエイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Chondrichthyes
- Order
- Myliobatiformes
- Family
- Urolophidae
- Genus
- Urolophus
A ray that lives along the coasts from Sado and Wakasa Bay to Kyushu, in the Seto Inland Sea and nearby seas.
How the Sepia stingray lives
It lives on sandy and muddy seabeds.
宇久井ビジターセンターBasic data
- Size
- Disc size: about 30 cm
- Range
- Seto Inland Sea, Hachijo Island, East China Sea, southern and southwestern Korean Peninsula coasts, Jeju Island, Taiwan, and elsewhere
Where the Sepia stingray has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ヒラタエイ
- 简体中文
- 褐黄扁魟
- 繁體中文
- 褐黃扁魟
- 한국어
- 흰가오리
- Deutsch
- Goldener Rundstechrochen
- Português (Brasil)
- Raia-lisa-sépia
- Русский
- Оранжево-красный веслохвост
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — ヒラタエイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — ヒラタエイChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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