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Title: Marble ray detail. Maldives.
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Detail of eye and spiracle on a marbled ray (Taeniura meyeni). Spiracle allows a ray to breath while resting on the seabed because its mouth and gills are on its underside. Baa Atoll, Maldives. Indian Ocean
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- Batoidea: Batoids
- Cartilaginous Fishes: Chondrichthyes
- coral reef
- Elasmobranchs: Elasmobranchii
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- Indian Ocean
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- Maldives
- marbled ray: marbled ribbontail ray: Taeniura meyeni
- Marine Life
- Rajiformes
- Rays and Skates
- tropical
- Whiptail Stingrays: Dasyatidae
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