Bat ray

Californian eagle rays ( Myliobatis californica )

The California Eagle Rays ( Myliobatis californica ), often referred to as bat rays, is a ray species, which is found near the coast in the eastern Pacific at depths of one to 46 meters. The exact range extends from Oregon to the Galapagos Islands and also includes the Gulf of California.

Features

The California Eagle Rays reached with his long, whip-like tail, a maximum length of 1.80 meters, but usually remains at a length of one meter. Head, trunk and pectoral fins give a diamond- like body profile. The head is short and rounded, the upper and lower jaws are set with a composed of many flat teeth chewing apparatus. The cartilaginous fish are brownish, olivaceous or blackish and undecorated on the top. The belly is white. The tail bears at its first third, just behind the small dorsal fin, a barbed brief sting. A tail fin is missing. While the primitive guitar fish, as well as the sawfish and the dither Roche -like as most sharks are propagated through root snaking of the body and the tail fin and the rights skates are propelled by undulating movements of their large pectoral fins, beat California eagle rays like any other eagle rays similar to birds with their wings with the enlarged pectoral fins.

Way of life

The California Eagle rays live alone or in groups near the coast in shallow lagoons, sandy and muddy bays, but also in rocky surroundings and in kelp beds. He digs down and back into the ground. It feeds mainly on bottom-dwelling crustaceans, molluscs and worms. Like all Eagle Rays he is ovoviviparous. Mating season is the summer. The young rays, usually ten or less are born the following summer.