The Marble Ray has many names, including two scientific ones:
Taeniura meyeni and T. melanospilos. Its common names
include Black-spotted stingray, Giant reef ray, Marbled ray,
Blotched fantail ray and Round ribbontail ray.
The first thing you notice about the Marble Ray is its
great size. It can be 3 m (10 ft) in length and
1.7 m (6 ft) wide. Round in shape it is covered with a dense
pattern of black spots. It is not aggressive but you need to
be careful of the spines on the tail.
You see the Marble Ray in the Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea and
East Africa to southern Japan, Micronesia and tropical Australia;
and in the Cocos and Galapagos islands in the Eastern Pacific.
It occurs in a wide range of habitats, from shallow lagoons
to outer reef slopes, and usually has other fish like jacks
swimming near them. Carnivorous, the Marble Ray eats
bottom fish and crustaceans.
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