Purple eagle ray

The purple eagle ray (Myliobatis hamlyni) is a species of fish in the family Myliobatidae.The purple eagle ray was first described in 1911 by the Australian ichthyologist James Douglas Ogilby as Myliobatis hamlyni, being named in honour of his friend, the entomologist Ronald Hamlyn-Harris, who was director of the Queensland Museum from 1910 to 1917.The disc is diamond-shaped and the pectoral fins are very large and wing-like, the front edge being straight or slightly convex.The slender, whip-like tail has one or two long stinging spines at its base and has a distinctive fold on its ventral surface.[4] This fish occurs in the tropical and subtropical west Pacific Ocean; its exact range is unclear but includes Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Okinawa (Japan).
Conservation statusNear ThreatenedIUCN 3.1Scientific classificationEukaryotaAnimaliaChordataChondrichthyesElasmobranchiiMyliobatiformesMyliobatidaeMyliobatisBinomial nameJ. D. OgilbyspeciesendemicInternational Union for Conservation of Naturenear-threatenedfirst describedichthyologistJames Douglas OgilbyentomologistRonald Hamlyn-HarrisQueensland MuseumJapanese eagle raymolecularventralsubtropicalfishing gearopen seaouter continental shelfcontinental slopethreatIUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesWorld Register of Marine SpeciesWikidataFishBaseiNaturalistOpen Tree of LifeZooBank