Endangered
Ocellate Eagle Ray
Aetomylaeus milvus
Ocellate Eagle Ray is an eagle ray in the family Myliobatidae (order Myliobatiformes) — Aetomylaeus milvus, recorded as Endangered and tied to Pakistan, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates.
The eagle ray
Stingrays and eagle rays are flattened cartilaginous fishes. The mouth is on the underside; many species use coastal shallows.
Sharks, rays, and guitarfishes: cartilaginous fishes with denticle skin and no true bone.
Range and habitat
Ocellate Eagle Ray is recorded from Pakistan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, China, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
GBIF currently lists 29 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Rays feed on the bottom or in open water depending on the family. Nets and shallow-water fisheries are the usual human contact.
Sharks and rays grow slowly and have few young. A fishery that treats them as bycatch can empty a coastal form.
In crisis
Ocellate Eagle Ray is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the Dutch Wikipedia article on Aetomylaeus milvus, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q5858277 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
