Florent's Guide To The

Tropical Reefs

Lesser Electric Ray
Narcine bancroftii
Lesser Electric Ray
Also known as: Small Electric Ray, Caribbean Electric Ray
Category: Numbfishes
Scientific Name: Narcine bancroftii
Size: 10 to 18 in. (25 to 45 cm)  
Depth: 0-80 ft. (0-25 m)
Distribution: Florida, Gulf of America, Southern Caribbean, Brazil, Belize, Yucatan peninsula
Chordata (Phylum) Chordates
└Vertebrata (Subphylum) Vertebrates
 └Chondrichthyes (Parvphylum) Cartilaginous Fishes
  └Elasmobranchii (Class) Sharks and Rays
   └Batoidea (Infraclass) Rays
    └Torpediniformes (Order) Electric Rays
     └Narcinidae (Family) Numbfishes
      └Narcine (Genus)
       └N. bancroftii (Species)
WoRMS ID: 275386🔗
iNaturalist ID: 106603🔗

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