Description
provided by World Register of Marine Species
Occurs from shallow lagoons to outer reef slopes, and on soft bottoms including banks. Has been trawled from as deep as 430 m off East Africa; most common at 20-60 m depth. Feeds on demersal fishes. Disk width about 180 cm. Not normally aggressive, but it has been responsible for at least one human fatality. May be caught using longlines (Ref. 5213)
- license
- cc-by-4.0
- copyright
- WoRMS Editorial Board
- bibliographic citation
- Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2019). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2019). Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2019). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2019).
- contributor
- Edward Vanden Berghe [email]
