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title: "Black Stingray"
description: "Bathytoshia lata — Vissen. The broad stingray (Bathytoshia lata), also known as the brown stingray or Hawaiian stingray, is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/black-stingray
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Black Stingray

> Bathytoshia lata — Vissen. The broad stingray (Bathytoshia lata), also known as the  brown stingray or Hawaiian stingray, is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae.

- Scientific name: *Bathytoshia lata*
- Category: `fish` (Vissen)
- Habitats: `sea` (Zee en kust)
- iNaturalist observations: 372
- Wikidata: [Q28927527](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28927527)
- iNaturalist taxon: [516612](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/516612)

## Names

- en: Black Stingray
- de: Brauner Stechrochen
- es: Pastinaca áspera
- fr: Pastenague épineuse

## Countries with the most observations

ES (140), NZ (68), AU (59), US (33), CV (6), PT (6), ZA (3)

## Summary

The broad stingray (Bathytoshia lata), also known as the  brown stingray or Hawaiian stingray, is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae. They range across the Indo-Pacific from southern Africa to Hawaii, and are the predominant species of stingray in the inshore waters of the Hawaiian Islands. This benthic fish also inhabits sandy or muddy flats at depths greater than 15 m (49 ft) in the Eastern Atlantic, from southern France to Angola, including the Mediterranean Sea. Usually growing to 1 m (3 ft) across, the broad stingray has a wide, diamond-shaped pectoral fin disc with a protruding snout tip and a long…

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

## Photo

![Black Stingray](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/black-stingray/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jaco Grundling · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5934702

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/black-stingray?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).