Pitted stingray
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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The pitted stingray has a sharp, venomous spine on its tail.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Pitted stingray
- Scientific name
- Dasyatis matsubarai
- Japanese name
- ホシエイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Chondrichthyes
- Order
- Myliobatiformes
- Family
- Dasyatidae
- Genus
- Dasyatis
It lives along the Pacific coast of Japan from Hokkaido to the Hyuga Sea off Kyushu, and in places such as the seas off western Korea.
Its body is black, with white dots in dashed lines that spread out from the middle of the body toward the tail.
These lines of white dots gave it both its Japanese and English names. It is a species that grows large.
How the Pitted stingray lives
It lives near the bottom, from coastal waters to offshore areas. It eats bottom-dwelling molluscs, crustaceans and fish.
神戸須磨シーワールド男鹿水族館GAOBasic data
- Size
- Disc size: about 1.8 m
- Range
- Pacific coast from southern Hokkaido to Hyuga-nada, Izu Islands, western Korean Peninsula, and elsewhere
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
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 — ホシエイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 男鹿水族館GAO — ホシエイChecked: 2026-11-07
- 神戸須磨シーワールド — ホシエイ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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