Maylan
Aetobatus narinari
Category: Sharks & Rays
IUCN Conservation Status: EN - Endangered - facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Elasmobranchii
- Order
- Myliobatiformes
- Family
- Aetobatidae
- Genus
- Aetobatus
Where to Find
Found in 48 diving areas across 38 countries and 8 regions.
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 26 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 6 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 30 records
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 3 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 91 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 4 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 9 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 9 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 2 records
- Ocho Rios, Jamaica - 2 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 3 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 15 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 20 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 18 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 4 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 3 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 3 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 13 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 12 records
- Lighthouse Reef, Belize - 30 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 2 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 1 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 27 records
- Utila, Honduras - 29 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 7 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 3 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 3 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 2 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 1 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 17 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 1 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 47 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 48 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 25 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- Cozumel, Mexico - 19 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 19 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 2 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 4 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 1 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 2 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 4 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 4 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 4 records