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Taeniura meyeni Muller and Henle, 1841
BLOTCHED FANTAIL RAY
Round ribbontail ray

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Taeniura meyeni
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Taeniura meyeni

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Overview
Main identification features
  • disc: broad oval; snout round
  • grey + black blotches
  • tail short, thick; 2 long spines
Disc rhomboidal with rounded angles, a little wider than long, narrower at rear; tail with thick, depressed base, slightly longer than disc; tail fin very small, small ridge on top of tail and larger fold on lower side of tail reaching tail tip; 2 large venomous spines on top of tail; teeth small, densely packed like tiles, 37-46 upper tooth rows, 39-45 lower rows; disc uniformly covered with small star-shaped denticles, a middle row of enlarged denticles on disc and tail.

Purple, blue-grey to dark grey above, with moderate to dense scattering of irregular black spots; dull to creamy white below.

Size: 300 cm long, 75 cm wide.

Habitat: sandy areas around rocky and coral reefs.

Depth: 5-500 m.

Indo-Pacific; resident in the Galapagos and Cocos.


Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 500 m.
Depth Range Min: 5 m.
Diet: bony fishes; mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs).
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=6; Southern limit=-2; Western limit=-93; Eastern limit=-87; Latitudinal range=8; Longitudinal range=6.
Egg Type: Live birth; No pelagic larva; No pelagic phase.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Reef Associated.
Global Endemism: All Pacific (West + Central + East); Indo-Pacific only (Indian + Pacific Oceans); TEP non-endemic; "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific); All species.
Habitat: Corals; Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom); Rocks; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Sand & gravel; Reef (rock &/or coral); Reef and soft bottom.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 300 cm.
Regional Endemism: Island (s) only; Island (s); Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic; Eastern Pacific non-endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;


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References
  • Compagno, L.J.V., 1999., Checklist of living elasmobranchs. In Hamlett W.C. (ed.) Sharks, skates, and rays: the biology of elasmobranch fishes., The John Hopkins University Press:471-498.
  • Edgar, G.J. Banks, S., Fariña, J.M., Calvopiña, M. and Martínez, C., 2004., Regional biogeography of shallow reef fish and macro-invertebrate communities in the Galapagos archipelago., Journal of Biogeography, 31:1107-1124.
  • Humann, P., 1993., Reef Fish Identification: Galapagos., New World Publishing:192pp.
  • Müller , J. and Henle, F. G. J., 1839., Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen. Berlin., Plagiostomen, :27-102.
  • Smith , M. M. and Heemstra, P., 1986., Smith's Sea Fishes. Johannesburg: Macmillan South Africa. 1047 pp., Macmillan South Africa:1047pp.

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