With this newly revised second edition of "Wings In The Water" by Cathy Marine, young readers can join the crew of the Ono V and Mote Marine Lab Senior Biologist Kim Bassos-Hull as she cruises the turquoise waters of the Gulf of Mexico looking for
spotted eagle rays. Popular in public aquariums, and found in warm and temperate waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, the
spotted eagle ray is an amazingly beautiful animal.
I leaped up, wringing salt water out of my eyes, to see a majestic
spotted eagle ray with a wingspan of about a metre make a diversion around us before continuing on its serene way down the coast.
Florencia Cerutti-Pereyra and colleagues launched a Citizen Science Outreach Program around the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, asking more than 40 recreational dive and tour operators to provide
spotted eagle ray photos--an effort supported by Aquaworld-Cancun.Solo Buceo and SCUBA Cancun.
the
spotted eagle ray [Aetobatus narinari], southern stingray [Dasyatis americana], and longnose stingray [D.
Effect of environmental factors and fishing effort allocation on catch of the
Spotted Eagle Ray Aetobatus narinari (Rajiformes: Myliobatidae) in Southern Gulf of Mexico
He's a
spotted eagle ray, of the family Myliobatidae.
It was not clear if the
spotted eagle ray's barb struck the woman, or if the impact killed her.
Bertakis was apparently trying to remove the
spotted eagle ray from the boat when he was stung.
Firefighters were called to lift the 30lb
spotted eagle ray from the boat in Lighthouse Point, Florida.
Her logbook reads like the diary of a National Geographic adventurer: "battled murky waters in Fiji, trailed
spotted eagle ray in Belize, encountered hammerhead shark in Egypt." These are modest jaunts compared to Rebecca Hunter's dive last August to the Henrietta Marie, a 17th-century slave ship sunken off Key West, Florida, which she called a spiritual experience.
waters include the
spotted eagle ray, a widespread creature whose dark topside features constellations of white dots, and the bat ray, which ranges from Oregon to Mexico.
The order of abundance in catches overall was king mackerel, little tunny, cownose ray, crevalle jack, cobia,
spotted eagle ray, great barracuda, tarpon, Atlantic stingray, and Spanish mackerel (Fig.
spotted eagle ray - ray with back covered with white or yellow spots; widely distributed in warm seas