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Myliobatidae

17 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › Elasmobranchii › Myliobatiformes › Myliobatidae

Myliobatis aquila (Linnaeus, 1758)

Myliobatis aquila, the common eagle ray, is a cartilaginous fish with a venomous tail spine found in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean.

Myliobatis californica Gill, 1865

Myliobatis californica, the bat ray, is an eagle ray found along the US Pacific coast to the Galápagos, with documented morphology, behavior and reproduction.

Myliobatis freminvillei Lesueur, 1824

Myliobatis freminvillei, the bullnose eagle ray, is a western Atlantic eagle ray with two separate distribution ranges.

Myliobatis tenuicaudatus Hector, 1877

Myliobatis tenuicaudatus, the New Zealand eagle ray, is a venomous cartilaginous fish found around Australia and New Zealand.

Aetomylaeus bovinus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817)

Aetomylaeus bovinus (the bull ray) is a large, declining migratory stingray found off the coasts of Europe and Africa.

Mobula hypostoma (Bancroft, 1831)

Mobula hypostoma, the lesser devil ray, is a small ray species found primarily in the warm coastal waters of the western Atlantic.

Mobula mobular (Bonnaterre, 1788)

Mobula mobular, also called devil fish, is a large Mobula ray species with details of description, distribution, habitat and ecology introduced.

Mobula munkiana Notarbartolo-di-Sciara, 1987

Mobula munkiana is the smallest devil ray species, found in the eastern Pacific with unique courtship and low-fecundity ovoviviparous reproduction.

Mobula tarapacana (Philippi, 1892)

Mobula tarapacana, the Chilean devil ray, is a deep-diving Mobulidae ray found worldwide in warm oceans.

Mobula alfredi (Krefft, 1868)

Mobula alfredi (the reef manta ray) is a large ray native mostly to Indo-Pacific tropical and subtropical coastal areas.

Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792)

Mobula birostris (giant oceanic manta ray) is a large, slow-reproducing ray found in global tropical and temperate oceans.

Aetobatus narinari (Euphrasen, 1790)

Aetobatus narinari, the spotted eagle ray, is a near threatened cartilaginous fish restricted to the Atlantic by recent taxonomy.

Aetobatus ocellatus (Kuhl, 1823)

Aetobatus ocellatus, the ocellated eagle ray, is a cartilaginous fish differing in body proportions and color from the spotted eagle ray.

Aetobatus laticeps Gill, 1865

Aetobatus laticeps, the Pacific white-spotted eagle ray, is a cartilaginous East Pacific ray split from A. narinari in 2014.

Rhinoptera steindachneri Evermann & Jenkins, 1891

Rhinoptera steindachneri, the golden Pacific cownose ray, is an ovoviviparous East Pacific ray currently threatened by overexploitation.

Rhinoptera bonasus (Mitchill, 1815)

Rhinoptera bonasus, the cownose ray, is a migratory, venomous ray native to western Atlantic coastal waters.

Rhinoptera neglecta Ogilby, 1912

The Australian cownose ray (Rhinoptera neglecta) is an 86 cm long ray found off eastern Australia in the Western Pacific.

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