Endangered
Torpedo mackayana
Torpedo mackayana
Torpedo mackayana, called the ringed torpedo, Western African torpedo, West African torpedo ray, McKay electric ray, or McKay's torpedo ray, is an electric ray species in the family Torpedinidae, that lives in shallow waters on the western coast of Africa.
Appearance
Torpedo mackayana has a round, "fleshy" disc, that has a slightly greater width than length. It has a gray-brown or rusty-brown upperside and a white underside. It is covered with small patches of brown or white.
This study showed that it has an average length of about 9.55 centimetres (3.76 in) and an average weight of 20.64 grams (0.728 oz) at birth.
Range and habitat
No country pin is stored for Torpedo mackayana on this catalog. That is a missing field, not proof the animal has no range.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Its prey consists of fish and smaller invertebrates.
In crisis
It is likely caught by fisheries as a bycatch. Pollution and habitat destruction, due to coastal development, are also threats in part of its range. Even so, nothing is known about its population size or trend.
The adult population consists of more females than males, while young are more commonly male than female. No conservation actions are taking place for the species, and it is listed on the IUCN Red List as Endangered.
Torpedo mackayana 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 Torpedo mackayana, Wikidata item Q5034044. 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.
