Scientific Name	Himantura microphthalma   Pronounce			No picture was not be chosen to represent this species.
Author	(Chen, 1948)	Depth	- M
Chinese	小眼窄尾魟	Poisonous Fish	Yes
Family_Chinese	魟科	Economic Fish	No
Family	F055　Dasyatidae	Edible Fish	Yes	Chinese In Mainland China	小眼窄尾魟
Max Length	112 cm	Aquarium Fish	No	Common Name	魴仔、小眼魟
Distribution in World	North West Pacific Ocean [Endemic in Taiwan]	Distribution in Taiwan	North
Habitats	Benthos、Coastal	Holotype Locality	Keelung market, northern Taiwan
Synonyms	Dasyatis microphthalmus
Reference	臺灣魚類誌(沈等, 1993)；福建魚類誌(朱等, 1985)；Chen, J. T. F. 1948 (July) Notes on the fish-fauna of Taiwan in the collections of the Taiwan Museum. I. Some records of Platosomeae from Taiwan, with description of a new species of Dasyatis. Q. J. Taiwan Mus. (Taipei) v. 1 (no. 3): 1-14；Ebert, D. A., W. T. White, H.-C. Ho, P. R. Last, K. Nakaya, B. Séret, N. Straube, G. J. P. Naylor and M. R. C. de Carvalho (2013) An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Taiwan. Zootaxa 3752 (no. 1): 279-386.   Chen, J. T. F. 陳兼善 1948 朱元鼎 編 1985 沈世傑 編 Shih-Chieh Shen ed. 1993
Specimen List
Common Name	Smalleye whip ray
Redlist Status	Not in IUCN Redlist
Characteristic	Disc as broad as long, front edges scarcely, hinder broadly round. Snout long, pointed. Eyes small,11 to 16 in snout. Mouth 4.5 in snout, slightly arched, with a thin velum inside instead of papillae. Teeth small, numerous, paved, each with a transverse ridge. Nostrils small, anterior nasal valves forming rectangular flap finely fringed and joined to upper jaw by narrow frenum. Skin smooth, two round tubercles in middle of back, one serrated caudal spine inserted just behind the first sixth of the tail, a patch of small asperities above before spine and also behind the spine along the upper and lateral surface of the tail to its extremity. No dorsal fin. Tail nearly 1.7 the body, without cutaneous fold. Ventrals narrow, long, anterior and posterior angles obtuse.
habitats	Ovoviviparous. Better reference needed.
Distribution	Taiwan, China.(Chen)
Utility	NULL