Description
There are dark spots on a light brown disc; spots well-spaced in young but crowded to form reticulated pattern in adult; white ventrally; tail marked with bands of black and white; snout sharply pointed; disc with narrowly rounded outer corners, and tail long, slender and nearly three times body length when intact, with no caudal finfolds; disc without thorns but with band of flat denticles along midback (in adults); usually 1 medium-sized sting on tail.
Size
Maximum length: 142.1 cm (WD), Common length: 55-70 cm (TL)
Diet
Feeds on small fishes, bivalves, crabs, shrimps, worms and jellyfishes.?
Utilization
Consumed fresh and dried. Tail is used as a decorative.
Gears
Trawl, longline, gillnet