Where Pearl stingray has been recorded
GBIF occurrence records for Fontitrygon margaritella, mapped and tabulated by country.
1,016 georeferenced occurrence records with coordinates are published for Fontitrygon margaritella through GBIF, from 16 countries or marine areas. This page maps those records and lists where they come from. Occurrence records reflect where people have looked as well as where the species lives, so well-surveyed coastlines are over-represented.
- Georeferenced records
- 1,016
- Countries / areas
- 16
- Mapped locations
- 11
- Records sampled for the map
- 1,016
- Inland records omitted
- 32
- Gbif taxonkey
- 9267839
Countries and areas with the most records (GBIF)
Cameroon — 856 records; Senegal — 102 records; Côte d’Ivoire — 13 records; Guinea-Bissau — 10 records; Nigeria — 6 records; Gambia — 5 records; Gabon — 4 records; Mauritania — 4 records; Sierra Leone — 4 records; Portugal — 3 records; Guinea — 2 records; India — 2 records; Liberia — 2 records; Angola — 1 records; Congo, Democratic Republic of the — 1 records.
Source: GBIF Occurrence Search (taxonKey 9267839) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=9267839&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY). Accessed 2026-09-23.
How to read this map
The map plots a sample of 1,016 of the 1,016 records, deduplicated to a half-degree grid, so dense areas do not merge into one blob. The sample covers 16 of the 16 countries or areas with records; the areas absent from the sample hold 0 records in total.
32 records plotting inland were omitted: for a marine species those are almost always the holding institution's coordinates rather than a collection site.
Records show where the species has been observed and reported, not a modelled range.
Source: GBIF Occurrence Search (taxonKey 9267839) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=9267839&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY); WoRMS distribution records (MarineRegions) — https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1042839 (CC BY 4.0); Natural Earth 110m basemap — https://www.naturalearthdata.com/ (public domain). Accessed 2026-09-23.
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