7 Mariana Islands species out of 10 reported | 8 Indo-Pacific species
Mariana Islands species are displayed by default. Click on the tags below to view additional species.
Aetobatis narinari
Mobula alfredi
Neotrygon kuhlii
Pateobatis fai
Taeniurops meyeni
Urogymnus asperimmus
Urogymnus granulatus
Note: the image of Neotrygon kuhlii is a frame grab from a baited remote underwater video (BRUV) obtained in the waters around Guam in 2015 by Jake Asher of the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center and Curtin University.
Additional ray and guitarfish species reported from the Mariana Islands by Myers and Donaldson (2003):
Rhinobatidae (guitarfishes)
- Rhyncobatus djiddensis
Plesiobatidae (deepwater stingrays)
- Plesiobatis daviesi (found between 44 and 780 m)
Dasyatidae (stingrays)