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HUWAT KSAFISH Fishes of Saudi Arabia Red Sea and Arabian Gulf An initiative of the HUWAT ecosystem
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HWT-FISH-0019

Spotted eagle ray

Aetobatus narinari

(Euphrasen, 1790)

Aetobatus narinari
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Species MYLIOBATIDAE Fish accepted scientific name

Quick facts

Saudi context in this record

Naming evidence

Local names recorded for their geographic scope: evidence that the name is used there, not a published record of biological occurrence.

Saudi territorial waters, Red Sea أبو رويس · حدايه · وطواط · حريقه

Occurrence records

The encyclopedia holds no published occurrence record for this taxon in Saudi waters yet.

Measurements and characters

Specimen total length total length (TL)

— not recorded in the source

Length of a measured specimen, not the maximum length of the species.

The source does not record a total length for this group.

No source is linked to this value.

Documentation status

documented from a photographed specimen — the source does not measure this group

No source is linked to this value.

Names

English common names

Spotted eagle ray

Local names — Saudi territorial waters, Red Sea

  • أبو رويس Local name Local name, verified — not nationally approved
  • حدايه Local name Local name, verified — not nationally approved
  • وطواط Local name Local name, verified — not nationally approved
  • حريقه Local name Local name, verified — not nationally approved

Classification

AetobatusGenus MYLIOBATIDAEFamily MyliobatiformesOrder ChondrichthyesClass ChordataPhylum AnimaliaKingdom

Conservation

No governed conservation assessment is published for this taxon. The absence of a published assessment is not an assessment of low concern.

Distribution

The encyclopedia holds no published scientific distribution records for this taxon.

This section shows source-backed scientific distribution only. Community observations are not listed here and no scientific distribution is inferred from them.

Others in this family

Taxa of the same family. That is a taxonomic relationship, not a statement of resemblance; the encyclopedia holds no diagnostic characters or lookalike relations yet.

Information not yet documented in this record

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Scientific sources

Fishes from Territorial Saudi Red Sea Waters (2017). الطبعة الثانية 1438 H - 2017.
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Record last modified: 2026-09-23

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