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title: "Pink Whipray"
description: "Pateobatis fai — Peces. The pink whipray (Pateobatis fai) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, with a wide but ill-defined distribution in the tropical Indo-Pacific from southern Africa to Polynesia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/pink-whipray
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Pink Whipray

> Pateobatis fai — Peces. The pink whipray (Pateobatis fai) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, with a wide but ill-defined distribution in the tropical Indo-Pacific from southern Africa to Polynesia.

- Scientific name: *Pateobatis fai*
- Category: `fish` (Peces)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar y costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 1037
- Wikidata: [Q28925931](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28925931)
- iNaturalist taxon: [623869](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/623869)

## Names

- en: Pink Whipray
- de: Rosa-Stechrochen
- fr: Raie fouet

## Countries with the most observations

PF (438), MV (162), AU (135), MH (18), EG (11), NC (8), PW (8), SC (7), GU (6), IN (6), AS (5), FJ (5)

## Summary

The pink whipray (Pateobatis fai) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, with a wide but ill-defined distribution in the tropical Indo-Pacific from southern Africa to Polynesia. It is a bottom dweller that generally inhabits shallow water under 70 m (230 ft) deep, in sandy areas associated with coral reefs. Individuals exhibit a high degree of fidelity to particular locations. The pink whipray has a diamond-shaped pectoral fin disc wider than long, with a broad-angled snout and a very long, whip-like tail without fin folds. It has only a few small thorns on its back and is uniform brownish to grayish pink…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_whipray

## Photo

![Pink Whipray](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pink-whipray/medium.jpg)

Photo: James Eaton · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/223308866

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pink-whipray?lang=es` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).