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Fanray
Platyrhina sinensis
The fanray (Platyrhina sinensis) is a species of ray in the family Platyrhinidae. This species is locally common off the coasts of China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, and possibly Indonesia. It grows to a maximum known length of 68 cm, but most are 30–50 cm and weigh 200-500 g. The coloration is brown above and white below. The flesh is edible but this species is not targeted by fisheries. The fanray is the most abundant elasmobranch species in
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 60577.