Spotted Eagle Ray Aetobatus narinari
Often solitary, spotted eagle rays also move around in huge shoals of at least a hundred individuals in open waters-a truly spectacular site when silhouetted against a sunlit surface.
Eagle rays may be taken as by-catch in commercial fishing operations.
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Spotted eagle rays are commonly found in shallow inshore waters such as bays and coral reefs but may cross oceanic basins. They sometimes enters estuaries. They swim close to the surface, occasionally leaping out of the water, or close to the bottom.
The spotted eagle ray, Aetobatus narinari, is a member of Myliobatidae. This clade includes many rays that eat hard prey, as well as the massive plantivore - the manta ray.
Eagle rays eat a wide variety of animals found living on or in the sand, such as lobsters, crabs, clams, worms, snails, shrimp and small fishes.
A Southern Eagle Ray at Rottnest Island
A Southern Eagle Ray at Wattamolla
A Southern Ocean Sunfish on the surface
A Southern Red Scorpionfish at Tathra Wharf
A Southern Ribbonfish on the beach
A Southern Roughy at North West Solitary Island ...
Eagle Rays: Cownose Ray
Rhinoptera bonasus
Eagle Rays: Spotted Eagle Ray
Aetobatus narinari
Electric Rays: Lesser Electric Ray
Narcine bancroftii
Guitarfishes: Atlantic Guitarfish
Rhinobatos lentiginosus
Manta Rays: Devil Ray ...
Similar Species Southern Eagle Ray (Myliobatis goodei) and Bullnose Ray (M. freminvillei), both with 7 rows of teeth in each jaw (1 wide row in middle and 3 rows of smaller diamond-shaped teeth on each side), ...
Spotted eagle ray (Aetobatus narinari)
Spine coral (Hydnophora exesa)
Whale shark (Rhincodon typus)
Sunfish (Mola mola)
Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)
Green turtle (Chelonia mydas)
Blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus) ...
In the Eagle Rays (Myliobatidae) they are very few in number and in the Electric Rays (Torpedinidae) they are absent except in the modified form of the tail spines. The Devil-fishes (Mobulidae) have none at all.
Bat rays swim gracefully by flapping their batlike wings (pectoral fins) bird style-a feature that gives these rays their common name and their family name, 'eagle rays.
They have organs on either side of their heads that can deliver a shock of up to 200 volts! They use this electric shock to scare away predators and to shock prey. Stingrays, eagle rays and devil rays have spiny stingers on their tails that can ...
SubPhylum Vertebrata (vertebrates)
Class Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish)
Subclass Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays)
Superorder Batoidea
Order Myliobatiformes
Family Myliobatidae (Eagle Rays),
Genus Manta
Species birostris ...
are quite similar to each other, and the last two may just be isolated populations. The genus Manta is sometimes placed in its own family, Mobulidae, but this article follows FishBase, and places it in the family Myliobatidae, with the eagle rays and ...
The river stingrays, and a number of whiptail stingrays (such as the Niger stingray), are restricted to fresh water. Most myliobatoids are demersal, but some, such as the pelagic stingray and the eagle rays, are pelagic.
Most of the eagle rays and bat rays (family Mylobatidae) bear a single poison spine on the tail.
 See also: Eagle, Shark, Ray, Shell, Sea Lion
  
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