Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Raya de arrecife (Taeniura lymma), Temple, Sharm el-Sheij, Egipto, 2022-03-26, DD 05.jpg

File:Raya de arrecife (Taeniura lymma), Temple, Sharm el-Sheij, Egipto, 2022-03-26, DD, DD 05.jpg, featured

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Fish#Family_:_Dasyatidae
•  Info Bluespotted ribbontail ray (Taeniura lymma), Temple, Sharm el-Sheikh, Red Sea, Egypt. It is a fairly small ray, not exceeding 35 cm (14 in) and known predators of the bluespotted ribbontail ray include hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna) and bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops). Widespread in the nearshore waters of the tropical Indo-Pacific region, the bluespotted ribbontail ray has a range that extends around the periphery of the Indian Ocean from South Africa to the Arabian Peninsula to Southeast Asia. While timid and innocuous towards humans, the bluespotted ribbontail ray is capable of inflicting an excruciating wound with its venomous tail spines. c/u/n by Poco a poco (talk) 18:14, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support -- Poco a poco (talk) 18:14, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --The Cosmonaut (talk) 20:56, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support--Princess Rosalina 💄 452425 01:24, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support.--Vulp❯❯❯here! 09:28, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support -- IamMM (talk) 09:55, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Oppose Very bad quality image, almoast zero contrast. -- Karelj (talk) 13:23, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

•  Support I'm not sure why you think this. The fact that this photo shows the ray's camouflage is one of the main features here, so expecting it to stand out from the background is not really fair. As for 'very bad quality'...the eye is tack-sharp even at full (33 megapixel) resolution. Cmao20 (talk) 13:55, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

• Thank you, Cmao20, I'm also curious and would really like to know how Karelj would have done it better. Do you have a suggestion? This species is a night hunter and therefore hide during the day in holes and/or camouflage under the sand, like you can see here. Poco a poco (talk) 13:59, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
• OK, this is excelent example of camouflage and very good from this point. But the nomination of it as FP means, that this image will appear one day on main page of Commons. And try to imagine, what will be the reaction of Commons main page visitor on this image: Oh, this is terrible ...., do they really have nothing better to show people around? So I think, that it very good Quality image and I believe, it will be shown in many (all) wikipedia articles about Bluespotted ribbontail ray or Camouflage. And that is my reason for opposose voice in this FP nomination. -- Karelj (talk) 14:39, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

• It doesn't have to appear on the main page. We are promoting considerably more than 365 pictures a year so it's impossible for all FPs to appear on the main page. I respect your reasoning if you just don't think camouflage photos have sufficient wow-factor for FP, but accusing the photo of being 'very bad quality' was just untrue. Cmao20 (talk) 15:12, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

•  Oppose I'm not going as far as Karelj, however the wow is indeed limited here IMO. --A.Savin 17:33, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per A. Savin. Daniel Case (talk) 20:00, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Oppose I agree. This is a valuable photo, but because of the true excellence of the ray's camouflage, there isn't that much to see here. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:57, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support In the preview it may look boring, but when I view this photo in full size I am excited to study how well the camouflage works. It’s impressive how an animal with such a showy outside (the blue dots) can hide so well. Only the eye looks vivid, very vidid. --Aristeas (talk) 08:42, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support I believe a "Wow" does not have to be shiny or colorful. For me it is one of those images that I might return to several times. If this was featured on the main page, I would be so much more intrigued then by some of the conventionally "Wow"-images. --Kritzolina (talk) 11:57, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 10:16, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 06:08, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Oppose No wow, per others. -- Colin (talk) 19:21, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 10 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 01:39, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Fish#Family_:_Dasyatidae