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Aetobatus narinari

Tāmanu

Spotted Eagle-Ray

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Spotted Eagle-Ray; German Gefleckter Adlerrochen; French Raie Léopard

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Tāmanu (RR MG AT MK MT AK), Tamanu (PL), Haihai Manu (TS TW), Wai Toke / Wai Lepu (PK); Other Polynesian - Fai Manu (TAH)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE circumtropical incl. e.Africa - Samoa, Hawai‘i - tropical America; n. to s.Japan; s. to New Caledonia

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; Common S.Group and common N.Group. PLUS:; Marine, near-shore, lagoons, reef-flat and outer slope

SIGNIFICANCE LIST: ; Poisonous spines - serious

KEY FEATURES: [ 250cm wide - GBR]

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
P	^^^P				P	P

Northern Group: Present
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
P	P		P		P

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Aetobatus narinari (Euphrasen, 1790)
SYNONYMS: Aetobatis narinari [misspelling]; Raja narinari [O]; Stoasodon narinari

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; CHONDRICHTHYES; Rajiformes; Myliobatoidei; MYLIOBATIDAE, Myliobatinae

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: field ID Sims (Sims88). Mangaia: Photo Sue Ngatokorua, 9/2000, ID GMcC. Aitutaki: Spawning aggregation 20+ off Amuri, D.Simms 1980s (Sims88). Palmerston: reported (Preston95). Manihiki: field ID. Sims (Sims88). Pukapuka: fieldspecimen+photo, 2/2004, G.McCormack with ID as Aetobatus narinari. Suwarrow: field ID. Sims (Sims88 & EIA99).

References:
text p.39 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 8e Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.31 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.47 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 4-06 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 5-11 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....
Species No. 21 Munro (1967) Fishes of New Guinea

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, zD02

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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