#2041 · 🦈 sharks & rays
Bat Ray
🇳🇱 Californische adelaarsrog ·Myliobatis californica
📍 Marin County, CA, USA
📍 Aquatic Park, Berkeley, CA 94710, USA
📍 San Diego County, CA, USA
📍 Olivadi Way, Sacramento, CA, US
📍 San Mateo, California, United States
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © craigjhowe · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © Mary Robinson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Randy · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 4. © Janet Zipser Zipkin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © André Giraldi · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Marin County, CA, USA:© River Wilder · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Aquatic Park, Berkeley, CA 94710, USA:© Katherina Koriabine · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. San Diego County, CA, USA:© Bridget Spencer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Olivadi Way, Sacramento, CA, US:© hfs · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. San Mateo, California, United States:© Robin Gwen Agarwal · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The bat ray ( Myliobatis californica ) is an eagle ray found in muddy or sandy sloughs, estuaries and bays, kelp beds and rocky-bottomed shoreline in the eastern Pacific Ocean, between the Oregon coast and the Gulf of California. It is also found in the area around the Galápagos Islands. 8 m (5 ft 11 in) and a mass of 91 kg (201 lb). 0 lb). Bat rays are...
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.
- 2,530 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Theodore Nicholas Gill in 1865 (161 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Bat Ray
- Nederlands
- Californische adelaarsrog
- scientific name
- Myliobatis californica
- class
- Chondrichthyes
- order
- Myliobatiformes
- family
- Myliobatidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 2,530
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1865 by Theodore Nicholas Gill
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Myliobatidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 51491, Wikidata Q1722247, GBIF 2419300, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.