Bluespotted ribbontail ray
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The bluespotted ribbontail ray finds prey by sensing the electrical fields it produces.
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The bluespotted ribbontail ray finds prey by sensing the electrical fields it produces.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Bluespotted ribbontail ray
- Scientific name
- Taeniura lymma
- Japanese name
- ルリホシエイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Chondrichthyes
- Order
- Myliobatiformes
- Family
- Dasyatidae
- Genus
- Taeniura
It lives on coral reefs and sandy or muddy sea floors from the Red Sea across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Bluespotted ribbontail ray lives
At high tide, it moves in groups into shallow sandy areas to eat shrimp, hermit crabs and other prey. It pins prey to the seabed with its disc and moves its body to guide the prey into the mouth on its underside. Plates inside its mouth crush the shells of crabs, shrimp and mollusks. At low tide, it usually returns alone to the sea and hides in gaps in the reef.
University of Michigan Animal Diversity WebBasic data
- Range
- Red Sea and Indo-Pacific
Where the Bluespotted ribbontail ray has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ルリホシエイ
- 简体中文
- 蓝斑条尾魟
- 繁體中文
- 藍斑條尾魟
- 한국어
- 꽁지가오리
- Español
- Raya de arrecife
- Français
- Raie pastenague à points bleus
- Deutsch
- Blaupunktrochen
- Português (Brasil)
- Raia de pintas azuis
- Italiano
- Pastinaca a macchie blu
- العربية
- لما
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Pari tutul-biru ekor-pita
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá đuối chấm xanh
- Русский
- Тэниура-лимма
- ไทย
- ปลากระเบนทอง
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — ルリホシエイChecked: 2026-11-04
- University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web — Taeniura lymmaChecked: 2026-11-06
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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