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Sharks & rays

Lesser Electric Ray

Narcine bancroftii

Also known as: Bancroft's Numbfish, Brazillian Electric Ray, Caribbean Electric Ray, Electric Ray, Small Electric Ray, Spotted Torpedo Ray, Torpedofish, Trembler

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2019
Adult
@philsFirstPix · Navarre Beach Marine Sanctuary, United States · September 20171 / 2
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Overview

Found often buried in the sand during the day, out at nigh,t feeding over gravel, rubble, sand, and seagrass bottoms, of shallow, bays and coastal reefs.
They feed nocturnally on crustaceans and worms.

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.

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How to identify

COLOURS
Pattern
black spot

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Western Atlantic, Caribbean
  • Country only · 2
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Found often buried in the sand during the day, out at nigh,t feeding over gravel, rubble, sand, and seagrass bottoms, of shallow, bays and coastal reefs.

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Adult photos 2

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classElasmobranchii
    4. orderTorpediniformes
    5. familyNarcinidae
    6. genusNarcine
    7. speciesNarcine bancroftii (Griffith & Smith, 1834)

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    More in the family

    Torpediniformes