Giant Electric Ray

Narcine entemedor

Also known as: Cortez Electric Ray, Cortez Numbfish, Giant Electric Guitarfish, Giant Numbfish

ALSO KNOWN AS

Cortez Electric Ray
Cortez Numbfish
Giant Electric Guitarfish
Giant Numbfish

VUVulnerableIUCN Red List, 2020

Giant Electric Ray adult, photographed at Playa del Carmen (Jardines divesite), Mexico — @H2onu · Playa del Carmen (Jardines divesite), Mexico · May 20171 / 1

Overview

Found in shallow waters, often buried in the day, over sandy bottoms, foraging for food at night, in bays and coastal reefs.

Numbfish have a much weaker shock than other types of Electric Rays.

Electric Rays have specialized electric organs each side of their eyes which they use as defines and to ambush and stun their prey and then are able to eat them whole.

How to identify

COLOURS

Behaviour: ambush predator buries in sand nocturnal

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Habitat & where to find it

Range · Eastern Pacific
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LIVES IN

Found in shallow waters, often buried in the day, over sandy bottoms, foraging for food at night, in bays and coastal reefs.

RANGE

Eastern Pacific

Adult photos 1

Discussion 2

2 comments

Carycomic· 2 Oct 2018
Electric guitarfish, huh? Then, shouldn't its scientific name be Narcine gibsonii?
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fishx6Top Contributor· 15 Oct 2018
As far as I can find there is no fish with the name Narcine gibsonii perhaps you could send a link!
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Taxonomy

kingdomAnimalia
phylumChordata
classElasmobranchii
orderTorpediniformes
familyNarcinidae
genusNarcine
speciesNarcine entemedor Jordan & Starks, 1895

SourcesWoRMS FishBase