Endangered
Chupare stingray
Styracura schmardae
Chupare stingray is a shark or ray in the family Potamotrygonidae (order Myliobatiformes) — Styracura schmardae, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The tail is relatively short and slender, without fin folds but having subtle ventral and lateral ridges towards the base. The coloration is dark brown to olive above and yellowish white below, darkening to blackish towards the tip of the tail.
Range and habitat
The chupare stingray or Caribbean whiptail stingray is a stingray in the family Potamotrygonidae, found in the western Atlantic Ocean from the Gulf of Campeche to Brazil, among them the Antilles. The presence of this species in the Gulf of Mexico has not been confirmed. It also occurs in the Bahamas.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
It is reported to be ovoviviparous, like other stingrays.
In crisis
Chupare stingray is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Chupare stingray, Wikidata item Q61885647. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
