New Zealand eagle ray

Myliobatis tenuicaudatus

Width: 160cm

One of the larger eagle rays. It is commonly found close to shore on sand flats and seagrass beds around the southern mainland and Tasmania, where it creates feeding pits while ingesting crustaceans and polychaete worms. The species, once known as the Australian eagle ray, is now considered a sub-population of the same species with a distribution covering NZ and Australia.