Cortez Numbfish

Narcine entemedor

Classification

Class: Elasmobranchii
Order: Torpediniformes
Family: Narcinidae

Narcine entemedor, the giant electric ray or Cortez electric ray, is a species of numbfish, family Narcinidae, native to the eastern Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California to Panama. It is found in shallow water on sandy bottoms and sometimes adjacent to reefs. This species is closely related to the lesser electric ray (Narcine bancroftii) from the western Atlantic, and may represent the same species.

Distribution

Cortez Numbfish — (c) Tam Warner Minton, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Mexico · 82

Sources and credits

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Cortez Numbfish

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