---
title: "Pacific Electric Ray"
description: "Tetronarce californica — Fish. Tetronarce californica also known as the Pacific electric ray is a species of electric ray in the family Torpedinidae, endemic to the coastal waters of the northeastern Pacific Ocean from Baja California to British Columbia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/pacific-electric-ray
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Pacific Electric Ray

> Tetronarce californica — Fish. Tetronarce californica also known as the Pacific electric ray is a species of electric ray in the family Torpedinidae, endemic to the coastal waters of the northeastern Pacific Ocean from Baja California to British Columbia.

- Scientific name: *Tetronarce californica*
- Category: `fish` (Fish)
- Habitats: `sea` (Sea & coast)
- iNaturalist observations: 78
- Wikidata: [Q28146378](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28146378)
- iNaturalist taxon: [607535](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/607535)

## Names

- en: Pacific Electric Ray
- de: Kalifornischer Zitterrochen
- es: Torpedo del Pacífico

## Countries with the most observations

US (70)

## Summary

Tetronarce californica also known as the Pacific electric ray is a species of electric ray in the family Torpedinidae, endemic to the coastal waters of the northeastern Pacific Ocean from Baja California to British Columbia. It generally inhabits sandy flats, rocky reefs, and kelp forests from the surface to a depth of 200 m (660 ft), but has also been known to make forays into the open ocean. Measuring up to 1.4 m (4.6 ft) long, this species has smooth-rimmed spiracles (paired respiratory openings behind the eyes) and a dark gray, slate, or brown dorsal coloration, sometimes with dark spots. Its body form is typical…

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

## Photo

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

Photo: calibas · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/64314981

## Machine access

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