Bat Ray by goodoleboy

Photography • Sea/Undersea • posted on Oct 17, 2014

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Captured 8/3/11, at the beautiful Aquarium of the Pacific in beautiful Long Beach, California; my third visit to the Aquarium that year. Looking up, I caught this beauty from underneath as it knifed through the water in one of the huge sealife tanks (not the Blue Cavern). The bat ray (Myliobatis californica) is an eagle ray found in muddy or sandy sloughs, estuaries and bays, kelp beds and rocky-bottomed shoreline in the eastern Pacific Ocean, between the Oregon coast and the Gulf of California. It is also found in the area around the Galapagos Islands. The largest specimens can grow to a wingspan of 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) and a mass of 91 kg (201 lb). Bat rays are euryhaline, i.e. they are able to live in environments with a wide range of salinities. Source: Wikipedia free enyclopedia. Cheerybye.