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title: "Pazifischer Weißflecken-Adlerrochen"
description: "Aetobatus laticeps — Fische. Aetobatus laticeps, the Pacific white-spotted eagle ray, is a species of cartilaginous fish in the eagle ray family Myliobatidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/pacific-eagle-ray
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Pazifischer Weißflecken-Adlerrochen

> Aetobatus laticeps — Fische. Aetobatus laticeps, the Pacific white-spotted eagle ray, is a species of cartilaginous fish in the eagle ray family Myliobatidae.

- Scientific name: *Aetobatus laticeps*
- Category: `fish` (Fische)
- Habitats: `sea` (Meer & Küste)
- iNaturalist observations: 516
- iNaturalist taxon: [1303461](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1303461)

## Names

- en: Pacific Eagle Ray
- de: Pazifischer Weißflecken-Adlerrochen
- es: Raya Águila Oriental

## Countries with the most observations

MX (264), CR (110), PA (40), EC (24), CO (9), SV (6)

## Summary

Aetobatus laticeps, the Pacific white-spotted eagle ray, is a species of cartilaginous fish in the eagle ray family Myliobatidae. It is found in the tropical East Pacific Ocean, ranging from Baja California to northern Peru, including the Galápagos. There has been recent evidence to suggest A.laticeps is in the Mexican tropical Pacific, more specifically in Chacahua Lagoon. However this evidence is insufficient and so the research being done on the spotted eagle rays in Chacahua Lagoon is working under the name A. narinari. Until 2014, it was included in the similar spotted eagle ray (A. narinari), but the two differ…

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

## Photo

![Pazifischer Weißflecken-Adlerrochen](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pacific-eagle-ray/medium.jpg)

Photo: Rod · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/150849026

## Machine access

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