Bull ray

Striped eagle rays ( Pteromylaeus bovinus )

The Striped eagle rays ( Pteromylaeus bovinus ) is a ray species that occurs offshore in the eastern Atlantic at depths of 10 to 150 meters. The exact area of ​​distribution is from Madeira via Portugal, Morocco and the Canary Islands to South Africa, there goes around the Cape of Good Hope to the southern Mozambique and reaches the extreme southwest of the Indian Ocean. It also occurs in the Mediterranean, but where he is now rare.

Features

The Striped eagle rays reaches with his long, whip-like tail, a maximum length of 2.50 meters and a maximum weight of 83 kg is usually but with a length of 1.50 meters. His long, flattened and rounded snout reminiscent of a duck's bill, which is why he is often called duckbill ray. Upper and lower jaws are studded with seven rows of flat teeth. The head is large, the wing-like, large pectoral fins terminate in rounded tips. Striped eagle rays are green above brown to light brown with 7-8, rarely 9 bright blue-gray stripes. The belly is white. Head, trunk and pectoral fins give a diamond- like body profile. 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 Striped eagle rays like any other eagle rays similar to birds with their wings with the enlarged pectoral fins.

Way of life

The Striped Eagle Ray lives near the coast alone, sometimes in small groups. It feeds mainly on bottom-dwelling crustaceans and molluscs. Like all Eagle Rays he is ovoviviparous. The three to seven young stingrays are born in the autumn.