Whitespotted eagle ray
Distribution: Tropical Atlantic Ocean, from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to Brazil, and from Mauritania to South Africa.
Replaced by the closely related Aetobatus ocellatus in the Indo-Pacific (including the Red Sea) and Aetobatus laticeps in Eastern Pacific.
at Shoal Bay Beach (Anguilla) © nst56
at Preston Bay (Cayman Islands) © nst56
at Smith’s Reef (Turks and Caicos Islands) © misting2
at Petite Terre (Guadeloupe) © cailly-bruno
at Mexico Rocks (Belize) © pcamus
at Cayo Alcatracito (Cuba) © cailly-bruno
at Boca Catalina (Aruba) © azwicker
at Petite Terre (Guadeloupe)
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