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Aetomylaeus bovinus Bull ray, Duckbill Eagle Ray

Aetomylaeus bovinus is commonly referred to as Bull ray, Duckbill Eagle Ray. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Duckbill Ray (Aetomylaeus bovinus),Supertubes Beach, Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape, SOUTH AFRICA 2025


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lexID:
4718 
AphiaID:
871951 
Scientific:
Aetomylaeus bovinus 
German:
Gestreifter Adlerrochen, Kuhrochen , Entenschnabel-Adlerrochen 
English:
Bull Ray, Duckbill Eagle Ray 
Category:
Stingrays 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Elasmobranchii (Class) > Myliobatiformes (Order) > Myliobatidae (Family) > Aetomylaeus (Genus) > bovinus (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, ), 1817 
Occurrence:
Straße von Gibraltar, Benin, Ghana, Angola, Cameroon, Congo, East-Atlantic Ocean, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Indian Ocean, Madeira, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Northern Africa, Portugal, São Tomé e Principé, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South-Africa, Spain, Tansania, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Ivory Coast, the Mediterranean Sea, Togo, West Africa 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
10 - 150 Meter 
Habitats:
Coastal waters, Muddy grounds, Seawater, Sea water, Stony soils 
Size:
35.43" - 87.4" (90cm - 222cm) 
Weight:
116 kg 
Temperature:
13,7 °F - 24,5 °F (13,7°C - 24,5°C) 
Food:
Carnivore, Clams, Crabs, Crustaceans, Edible crab, Fish (little fishes), Hermit crabs, Predatory, Schrimps, Sepia, Sponges 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for home aquaria! 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Critically endangered (CR) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2025-02-04 13:59:26 

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Aetomylaeus bovinus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817)

Distribution
Eastern Atlantic: Portugal and Morocco to Angola, including the Mediterranean, Madeira and the Canary Islands; then from Saldanha Bay to Natal (South Africa) and southern Mozambique

Short description
Long, flat, rounded snout like a duck's bill; head thick and pectoral disc with sharply curved, angular corners; upper or lower jaw; usually with 7 rows of flat teeth.

Light brown with several pale blue-grey stripes (may be absent) dorsally, white ventrally.

Biology
Found in coastal tropical and warm temperate waters, occasionally offshore.
Sometimes found in small groups.
Feed on bottom-living crustaceans and mollusks. Ovoviviparous, aplacental.
Prized angling fish, often released.
Flesh highly esteemed.

Synonymised names
Aetomylaeus huletti Smith, 1953 · unaccepted
Myliobates episcopus Valenciennes, 1844 · unaccepted
Myliobatis bonaparti Duméril, 1865 · unaccepted
Myliobatis bovina Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817 · unaccepted
Pteromylaeus bovinus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817) · unaccepted

External links

  1. FishBase (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Wikipedia (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Duckbill Ray (Aetomylaeus bovinus),Supertubes Beach, Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape, SOUTH AFRICA 2025

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