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Definition of Spotted ray
1. Noun. Ray with back covered with white or yellow spots; widely distributed in warm seas.
Generic synonyms: Eagle Ray
Group relationships: Aetobatus, Genus Aetobatus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spotted Ray
Literary usage of Spotted ray
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of the Marine and Fresh Water Fishes of the British Islands by William Saville Kent, Edmund Willam Hunt Holdsworth, Sir Spencer Walpole, James Glass Bertram, Charles Edward Fryer (1883)
"... bears no inconsiderable resemblance, and fulfils the same function as the long
extended FIG. 30.—spotted ray (Rain maculata). legs of the Heron or other ..."
2. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society (1838)
"... they are occasionally found from two and a half to three feet in length.
The Spotted-Ray is distinguished from the rays already described, ..."
3. Sea Fishing by John Bickerdyke, William Senior, Alfred Harmsworth Northcliffe (1895)
"... which is also called spotted ray, rough ray, and sandy ray, has much the same
habits as the thornback, and is caught with the same baits. ..."
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