Urogymnus asperrimus Porcupine ray

Urogymnus asperrimusis commonly referred to as Porcupine ray. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. A aquarium size of at least 15000 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

9622 

AphiaID:

217424 

Scientific:

Urogymnus asperrimus 

German:

Igel Rochen 

English:

Porcupine Ray 

Category:

Stingrays 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Elasmobranchii (Class) > Myliobatiformes (Order) > Dasyatidae (Family) > Urogymnus (Genus) > asperrimus (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Bloch & Schneider, ), 1801 

Occurrence:

(the) Maldives, Australia, China, Fiji, Great Barrier Reef, Guam, Gulf of Oman / Oman, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Marschall Islands, Mayotte, Micronesia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Senegal, Somalia, South-Africa, Sumatra, Thailand, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), The Gulf of Guinea, the Ivory Coast, the Seychelles, Vietnam 

Sea depth:

15 - 217 Meter 

Size:

39.37" - 57.87" (100cm - 147cm) 

Temperature:

°F - 77 °F (°C - 25°C) 

Food:

Crabs, Decapods, Edible crab, Fish (little fishes), Rock lobster, Worms, Zoobenthos 

Tank:

3299.68 gal (~ 15000L)  

Difficulty:

Not suitable for home aquaria! 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Vulnerable (VU) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Urogymnus acanthobothrium
• 
  Urogymnus asperrimus
  Igel Rochen

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Urogymnus granulatus
  Mangroven-Peitschenschwanz-Rochen

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2016-04-07 09:08:39 

Last edit:

2020-01-25 19:17:31 

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