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The California butterfly ray (Gymnura marmorata) is a species of ray in the family Gymnuridae. It is found in Colombia , Costa Rica , Ecuador , El Salvador , Guatemala , Honduras , Mexico , Nicaragua , Panama , Peru , and the United States .
Adelpha californica, the California sister, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. They are common in California, but can also be found in western Nevada and Oregon, as well as in northern Baja California. The upper surfaces of their wings are dark brown to black with wide cream white bands dissecting both wings and two orange ...
The butterfly rays are the rays forming the genus Gymnura and the family Gymnuridae. They are found in warm oceans worldwide, and occasionally in estuaries . The body of butterfly rays is flattened and surrounded by an extremely broad disc formed by the pectoral fins , which merge in front of the head.
The longtail butterfly ray (Gymnura poecilura) is a species of butterfly ray, family Gymnuridae, native to the Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea to southern Japan and western Indonesia. Growing up to 92 cm (36 in) across, this ray has a lozenge-shaped pectoral fin disc about twice as wide as long, colored brown to gray above with many small, light ...
Zerene eurydice, the California dogface butterfly, belongs to the family Pieridae and is a sister genus to Colias. [2] The Zerene eurydice and the Colias both share the "characteristic of having yellow-orange and black wing coordination." [3] Additionally the,"Colias and Zerene eurydice males have bright UV patterns on their wings."
Zonetail butterfly rays have been found to feed primarily on bony fish, particularly anchovies and ponyfishes. Their inferior mouth type and co-occurrence with Longtail butterfly rays indicate that they may also feed on some bottom-dwelling crustaceans and molluscs, but there currently exists limited observed data on this for G. zonura. [3]
Carystus phorcus phorcus – white-patched ruby-eye; Cobalus virbius fidicula – white-centered ruby-eye; Conga chydaea – hidden-ray skipper; Copaeodes aurantiaca – orange skipperling; Copaeodes minima – southern skipperling; Cynea anthracinus – anthracinus skipper; Cynea corope – corope skipper; Cynea cynea – cynea skipper; Cynea ...
Chlosyne californica, the California patch, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae found in the Southwestern United States and Mexico. It lives in desert washes and canyons in regions between southern Nevada south to southwestern Arizona, southeastern California, Baja California and Sonora. [1] The wingspan is 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 –2 inches (32–51 ...