Japanese eagle ray
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Japanese eagle rays search for food while swimming close along the bottom.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海
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Japanese eagle rays search for food while swimming close along the bottom.
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The real Japanese eagle ray
- Scientific name
- Myliobatis tobijei
- Japanese name
- トビエイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Chondrichthyes
- Order
- Myliobatiformes
- Family
- Myliobatidae
- Genus
- Myliobatis
Where the name “Japanese eagle ray” comes from
Its pig-like face is said to have earned it the nickname Eibuta, or ray-pig.
静岡県水産技術研究所It lives in Japanese seas from Hokkaido to Kyushu and along the coasts of the Korean Peninsula, China and Taiwan.
How the Japanese eagle ray lives
It lives on sandy ground near the coast. Along the Izu Peninsula coast, it sometimes swims in groups from spring to summer. Around the Izu Peninsula, it is not seen from autumn to winter.
宇久井ビジターセンター静岡県水産技術研究所Basic data
- Range
- Southern and eastern Korean Peninsula, Chinese coasts of Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea and East China Sea, Taiwan, and elsewhere
- Conservation status in Japan
- Data Deficient (DD)Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)
Where the Japanese eagle 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
- トビエイ
- 简体中文
- 鸢鲼
- 繁體中文
- 鳶鱝
- 한국어
- 매가오리
- Deutsch
- Japanischer Adlerrochen
- Português (Brasil)
- Raia-pipa
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá ó đầu bò
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 — トビエイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — トビエイChecked: 2026-11-07
- 静岡県水産技術研究所 — トビエイChecked: 2026-11-07
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — トビエイChecked: 2026-11-07
- Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)Checked: 2026-11-07
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.
The conservation status in Japan is the category in the Red Lists of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, which assess the risk of extinction for wild animals in Japan.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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