Dasyatis bennettii

Adult fish are generally about 1 meter long. The body disc is subcircular, slightly rhomboidal; the front edge is oblique and straight, forming an angle of 60° with the snout; the width of the body disc is 1.1 times the length of the body disc, and the widest point is in the middle of the body disc. The snout is quite pointed and slightly protruding. The length of the snout is approximately equal to 1/4 of the body plate length and is approximately 2 times larger than the distance between the eyes. The eyes are large and slightly protruding; the diameter of the eyes is about the same size as the spout hole; the distance between the eyes is flat or slightly convex. The anterior nasal valve is united into the mouth lid, which extends to the maxilla. The posterior edge is thinly split and the middle is slightly concave. The mouth is small and wavy. The length of the front of the mouth is 2-2.3 times the width of the mouth. The middle part of the palatine membrane is concave and the poster

Distributed in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, mainly in Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines (uncertain). In China, it is distributed in the East China Sea, the South China Sea, and the coast of Taiwan.
The yellow stingray is a bottom-dwelling fish, mostly active in coastal sandy and muddy areas, and can sometimes be found in estuaries.

The yellow stingray's Latin name is Dasyatis bennettii, and its foreign name is Bennett's Stingray. It is a fish of the family Stingray and the genus Stingray.

The yellow stingray (Dasyatis bennettii) was first described in 1841 by German ichthyologist and physiologist Johannes Peter Müller (1801-1858) and German doctor, pathologist and anatomist Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809-1885) in the Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen, it was first recorded as "Bennett's triangle ray (Trygon bennettii)" based on individuals collected from the southwest coast of Japan.

Yellow stingrays often bury their bodies in the sand, leaving only their eyes and breathing holes exposed, and their tail spines are poisonous. They feed on various benthic animals such as shrimps, crabs, shellfish and fish, have seasonal migratory habits, and live in water depths of 5-100 meters.

Yellow stingrays mainly reproduce in spring and summer, showing ovoviviparity. The embryos initially feed on egg yolk, and then indirectly absorb uterine fluid rich in mucus, fat or protein through special structures, thereby obtaining additional nutrition from the mother. They have a unique embracing pairing behavior. Generally, they breed in brackish water and shallow seas at the downstream estuaries of the coast. After absorbing the yolk, the young fish grow in the estuaries and along the coast.

Listed in the "Red List of Endangered Species of the World Conservation Union" (IUCN 2007 ver 3.1) - Data Deficient (DD).

Listed in the second level of the "List of National Key Protected Wildlife in China". (Only for land-locked populations)

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