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Florida torpedo
The Florida torpedo (''Torpedo andersoni'') is a rare and little-known species of electric ray in the family Torpedinidae. It is known only from two specimens and a some wild sightings. Torpedoes have been recorded from three scattered locations in the Florida Straits and the western Caribbean Sea, and appear to inhabit coral habitats.
A small species growing up to long, the Florida torpedo has a nearly circular pectoral fin disc with a short, thick tail. It can be identified by its distinctive dorsal coloration of many brown blotches on a tan background, and the relatively forward position of its first dorsal fin. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) presently lacks the data to determine its conservation status.
==Taxonomy==
The sole two specimens of the Florida torpedo were caught over the western Grand Cayman Bank in November 1960 by the ''Silver Bay'', which was conducting exploratory shrimp trawling on behalf of the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries (a predecessor of the National Marine Fisheries Service). The species was described in a 1962 issue of ''Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean'' by Harvey Bullis, who named it after his colleague and mentor William Anderson. The larger, long adult male specimen was designated the holotype. This species belongs to the subgenus ''Torpedo'', and is most similar to the New Zealand torpedo (''T. fairchildi''), the panther electric ray (''T. panthera''), and the black-spotted torpedo (''T. fuscomaculata'').〔
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