Distribution: from Eastern Africa to Japan and the Central Pacific Islands. Very common in the Society Islands lagoons, in French Polynesia.
Often confused with Pateobatis jenkinsii.
at Toopua Sharks Sandbank (Tahiti and the Society Islands)
at Matira Beach (Tahiti and the Society Islands) © poisson-chatrlotte
at Temae Beach (Tahiti and the Society Islands)
at Matira Beach (Tahiti and the Society Islands)
at Moorea Sharks Sandbank (Tahiti and the Society Islands) © hmc
at Hilton Moorea (Tahiti and the Society Islands) © automated_house
at Moorea Sharks Sandbank (Tahiti and the Society Islands)
at Motu Fareone (Tahiti and the Society Islands)
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