Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Taeniurops meyeni
Sartén marmoleado, Raya manchada, Black spotted stingray, marbled ray, mottled ray
(T. meyeni) Size: Largest known individual, a female, measured 435 mm disc width sand 346 mm disc length (from the tip of the snout to the middle of cloaca. Taeniura meyeni.
(T. meyeni) Habitat: Over sand bottoms and rocky, boulder and gravel strewn slopes.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Elasmobranchii
Order
Myliobatiformes
Family
Dasyatidae
Genus
Taeniurops
Species
meyeni
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Dasyatis melanospilos (Bleeker, 1853), Taeniura melanospila Bleeker, 1853, Taeniura melanospilos Bleeker, 1853, Taeniura meyemi Müller & Henle, 1841, aeniura meyeni Müller & Henle, 1841, Taeniura mortoni MacLeay, 1883 (Horton et al., 2021)
Origin: Native
Distribution: (T. meyeni) Indo - Pacific; in the eastern Pacific only known from oceanic islands (Cocos and Galapagos)
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- Constant, P. (2007) Marine Life of the Galapagos. The Diver's guide to Fishes, Whales, Dolphins and marine Invertebrates, 307 pp.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Taeniurops meyeni", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19913. Accessed 30 June 2025.