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Yellow stingray

Urobatis jamaicensis

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Field Notes

Description:

Photo take a t -40 ft in a Caribbean reef, this one is cover whit sand.

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Yellow stingray

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Comments (3)
peter
Wow Gerardo, so amazing!
Juan DiTrani
Hi Gerardo, aposematic animals typically have bright colors for warning predators they are not edible. I think this animal doesn´t fit on the mission Animals with Warning Colors, but in Mimetic Animals, because is mimetizing with the sand of the sea.

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Global Coral Reef Monitoring
Mission
Caribbean Reef Fish of Southern Mexico
Photographed
PublishedJanuary 7, 2012

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