Abstract
The occurrences of two species of rays of the families Dasyatidae and Rhinopteridae are confirmed for the central and southern Red Sea, respectively. The Oman Cownose Ray, Rhinoptera jayakari, is reported as a new record from the Red Sea on the basis of two males collected at Jizan, southern Saudi Arabia. An adult individual of the Mangrove Whipray, Himantura granulata, previously only reported from the Gulf of Aqaba was observed and photographed in a shallow lagoon off Al Lith, Saudi Arabia, also confirming its presence in the Red Sea.