A long-snouted bottom ray of east coast estuaries and sand flats, half-buried by day.
To about 1.2 m, pale sandy brown with a long pointed translucent snout and a shark-like tail. It is a ray, and on east coast Australian sand it is one of the commonest large bottom animals a diver sees.
It lies half-buried in sand and seagrass in estuaries and shallow bays, and it moves off slowly when disturbed rather than bolting. It has no sting: the tail carries no barb, which makes it one of the few large rays a diver can settle next to without thinking about it. It gives birth to live young in the shallows in summer.
Ratings are per location: 1 means found on most dives that look for it, 5 means a handful of records. Where enough dives have been logged the figure is calculated from them; otherwise it is an editorial estimate, and says so. We publish habitat and destination, not the dive site.