About Himantura australis Last, White & Naylor, 2016
This species can be distinguished by several consistent characteristics: a weakly rhomboidal disc, a short preorbital snout, narrowly rounded lateral apices, a yellow to pale brown upper body, a white underside, and an entire body covered in scattered dark brown speckles or reticulations. The largest recorded female specimen has a disc width of 140 cm. This stingaree is distributed across Northern Territory, Western Australia, and Queensland in Australia, as well as Indonesian Papua and sovereign Papua New Guinea. It lives in shallow habitats, found from the water surface down to a depth of approximately 45 m. It is often caught accidentally by trawlers and commercial fishers in Australian waters, and local people in Papua New Guinea may target it as a delicacy.
