Common names: bat ray (English), bat-eagle ray (English), tecolote (Espanol)
 
Myliobatis californica Gill, 1865

California bat ray,     California bat-eagle ray

Disc rhomboidal, wider than long; head and snout blunt, rounded, raised, projecting well before disc; pectorals bluntly pointed, concave at rear, continue onto rostrum; teeth in flat, pavement-like plates, with 7 series of plates, upper plates not arched; eyes and spiracles on side of head; tail slender, about as long as disc, no tail fin; 1 large spine at base of tail after small dorsal fin.

Similar to  M. peruvianus but is larger, has blunter pectoral tips and the dorsal fin origin in further forward, nearer the pelvic fins (1x rather than 2x the length of the dorsal fin base after of the pelvic fin base).

Olive to dark brown to black above, white below.

Size: 180 cm wide.

Habitat: sand, mud and rocky bottoms, and algal beds.

Depth: 1-108 m.

Oregon to the Gulf of California.