Bat rays prefer shallow intertidal waters and sandy areas in bays and estuaries. They can also be found near reefs and kelp beds. Like other ray species, they are sometimes found buried in the sand.
Bat ray
The bat ray, Myliobatis californica,Gill, T.N. (1865). "Note on the family of myliobatoids, and on a new species of Aetobatis". Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y. 8, 135-138.
BAT RAY
The Bat Ray (Myliobatis californicus) is a ray (not a shark, but closely related to them). This dark gray ray has a white underside, a wide, angular disk, a rounded head, no caudal fin, and a stubby tail.
Bat Ray, Myliobatis californicus - Received from Gwen.
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Sharks: Atlantic Guitarfish (Rhinobatos lentiginosus), Bamboo Shark (Chiloscyllium plagiosum), Bat Ray (Myliobatis californica), Big Skate (Raja binoculata), Black Tip Reef Shark (Carcharchinus metanoperus), ...
There are banded stingarees and ocellate river rays, mangrove whiprays and bluespotted ribbontail rays, Australian butterfly rays and bat rays, Javanese cownose rays and manta rays.
brown smooth-hound sharks [Mustelus henlei], guitarfish [Rhinobatos productus] and bat rays [Myliobatis californicus]).
Most of the eagle rays and bat rays (family Mylobatidae) bear a single poison spine on the tail.
 See also: Shark, Rhino, Guitarfish, Herring, Ray
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