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10. Aetobatus narinari (Euphrasen) . Spotted Sting Ray; “Obispo’'’ ; “ Chucho.” 
Disk nearly or quite twice as broad as long; tail very long, about 2.5 times length of disk; snout 
7 in length of disk; distance from snout to eye 10 in width of disk; width of mouth 10 in length of 
disk. A long furrow in middle of interorbital space, deepest in front; spiracles obliquely placed. 
General color of whole upper surface light chocolate-brown, everywhere covered with roundish 
or oblong pearly or bluish spots or blotches, largest about size of eye, smallest less than half as large; 
under surface milky-white except margin of snout, which is dark-grav; tail uniform chocolate-brown; 
iris yellowish-gray. 
Found in tropical seas; north on our Atlantic coast to Virginia. One male seined at Culebra Island 
February 9. This is one of the largest and most interesting of the rays. It is not uncommon on our 
Florida coast, though the published records do not so indicate. It attains a length of 2 feet or more 
exclusive of the tail, which is two to three times the length of the disk. 
Raia narinari Euphrasen, Vet, Ak. Nya. Handl., XI, 1790, '217, Brazil; after Narinari of Marcgrave. 
Myliobatis eellenkee Riippell, Neu. Wirb., 70, 1835, Red Sea. 
Goniabatis macroptera McClelland, Calcutta Jour. Nat. Hist., I, 1841, 60, Bengal. 
Aetobatus narinari, Poey, Fauna Puerto-Riquena, 349, 1881; Stahl, 1. c., 81 and 167,1883; Jordan* Evermann, l.c.,88, 1896. 
