Narcinidae

Painted electric ray

Diplobatis picta

Soft bottom ray of the Western Atlantic

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• South America
• Other
• Small
• Tropical fish

The painted electric ray or variegated electric ray (Diplobatis picta, sometimes misspelled pictus) is a poorly known species of numbfish, family Narcinidae, native to the western Atlantic Ocean from southeastern Venezuela to the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil. It is common on soft substrates at a depth of 2–120 metres (10–390 ft).