#2036 · 🦈 sharks & rays
Spotted Eagle Ray
🇳🇱 Gevlekte adelaarsrog ·Aetobatus narinari
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what is it?
The spotted eagle ray ( Aetobatus narinari ) is a cartilaginous fish of the eagle ray family, Myliobatidae. As traditionally recognized, it is found globally in tropical regions, including the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Recent authorities have restricted it to the Atlantic (including the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico) with other populations recognized as the ocellated eagle ray ( A. ocellatus ) and Pacific white-spotted eagle ray ( A. laticeps ). Spotted eagle rays are most commonly seen alone, but occasionally...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 2,773 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Bengt Anders Euphrasén in 1790 (236 years ago).
- Listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Spotted Eagle Ray
- Nederlands
- Gevlekte adelaarsrog
- scientific name
- Aetobatus narinari
- class
- Chondrichthyes
- order
- Myliobatiformes
- family
- Aetobatidae
- IUCN Red List
- EN · endangered
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 2,773
- GBIF records in NL
- 1
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1790 by Bengt Anders Euphrasén
IUCN in Dutch: bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Aetobatidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 49297, Wikidata Q655565, GBIF 2419231, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.