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title: "Giant Electric Ray"
description: "Narcine entemedor — Fish. 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."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/giant-electric-ray
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Giant Electric Ray

> Narcine entemedor — Fish. 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.

- Scientific name: *Narcine entemedor*
- Category: `fish` (Fish)
- Habitats: `sea` (Sea & coast)
- iNaturalist observations: 159
- Wikidata: [Q2032915](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2032915)
- iNaturalist taxon: [106606](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/106606)

## Names

- en: Giant Electric Ray
- es: Raya eléctrica gigante
- nl: Cortezstroomrog

## Countries with the most observations

MX (128), EC (11), CR (5), PE (3)

## Summary

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. The specific epithet entemedor seems to be the Spanish equivalent of "intimidator".
This species attains a maximum length of 76 cm (30 in). The flattened pectoral fin disk is round, as long as it is wide, and overlapping…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcine_entemedor

## Photo

![Giant Electric Ray](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/giant-electric-ray/medium.jpg)

Photo: Justin Philbois · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/341942439

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/giant-electric-ray?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).