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Rays
Rays are cartilaginous fishes related to sharks with flat, disk-like bodies.
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How can you tell that a bony fish is not a cartilaginous fish?
If the fish has a back bone then it is considered as a bony fish :)
What species are closely related to the stingray?
Great white sharks are possible to be related to bull sharks. Great white sharks are somehow danderous like bull sharks. Great white sharks are possible to be related to bull sharks. Great white sharks are somehow danderous like bull sharks.
What is a habitat for a stingray?
The stingray's habitat is the coastal and warm bodies of waters found around the world. For example, the common stingray's habitats are the northeastern regions of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean and Black Seas. This is a carnivorous animal.
Where is the giant freshwater stingray located?
Yes, stingrays exist on Planet Earth. They live in the oceans. The stingrays are a family-Dasyatidae-of rays, cartilaginous fishes related to sharks. They are common in coastal tropical marine waters throughout the world, and several species are known to enter fresh water.
How does a Manta ray catch its food?
Manta rays are filter feeders and bottom feeders. They will strain fish larvae, plankton, and mollusks from water passing through their mouth and out of their gills. Individuals will sometimes perform barrel rolls for hours on end. In the Maldives (islands), hundreds of mantas will congregate and make a feeding vortex, known as cyclone feeding. They swim around in a circle in tight formation, literally casuing a cyclone in the water. This concentrates the plankton that they are feeding upon.
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If stingrays are not mammals what are they?
Boneless or cartilaginous Fish, as opposed to Bony Fish. they are in the same basic group as sawfish and- Sharks.
Sting rays and manta rays are part of the class chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes), which is mostly ectothermic, or cold-blooded. A few types of sharks are at least somewhat warm-blooded, and can at least partially control their blood temperature, but rays cannot.
The Ghost Shark as it is called in South Africa, is found at a depth of 200m to more than 2.4km in temperate and tropical waters on the soft muddy bottoms of the ocean bed of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Most species occur near continental landmasses or off oceanic islands and on the slopes of seamounts and underwater ridges.
ask.com says that"stingrays do migrate."<gabby0627
even nationalgeographic.com has a picture showing that stingray travel in the pacific and Atlantic ocean near the equator<gabby0627
They sort of vacuum it up through their mouth parts, which are located on their undersides.
Is the manta ray tube illegal?
Yes. It is illegal in Australia but i am not sure about any other countries. I hope this helps.
What is group of Stingrays called?
A group of sharks is called a gam, grind, school, herd, pod, collage, or shiver.
How long till stingrays eggs hatch?
Tiger sharks are ovoviviparous, the eggs hatch internally and are born live fully developed. The gestation is approximately 13 months.
What is the life cycle of the manta ray?
Lifespan is 20 years on average for a Devil Ray also known as the Manta Ray
Manta ray is their actual name. so it'd make more sense if you said:
Lifespan is 20 years on average for a Manta Ray also known as the Manta Ray.
just so you know.
Technically no, but the sides of their body act like fins.
What is the difference between bat ray and manta ray?
Manta Rays grow to a much larger size than Stingrays, but I'd say the biggest difference is that Stingrays have a "stinger", a hard, thin rod-like appendage that lies in a groove in it's tail until it's frightened or threatened at which time it will will 'lift' it up, out and over it's back, and drive it into the flesh of it's perceived (or real) attacker and 'sting' it - it's very painful!
Manta Rays have a similar tail to Stingrays, but over evolutionary-time, they've "lost" the 'stinger'.
Stingrays are thought to be evolutionarily older than Mantas mainly because Mantas have evolved from being bottom filter-feeders into Open-Ocean filter-feeders while stingrays have remained bottom feeders. This is why, if you should go into the water where they are found (like off the coast of Australia), you will likely be warned to do the "Stingray Shuffle"....this frightens the rays away and helps you to avoid stepping on one - if you do, you most likely will be stung.
It was once thought that there was only one "type" of Manta Ray. But, it has been discovered that there are actually two:
- One is call the Giant Manta Ray and these Rays migrate around in the Ocean for long distances
- The other, first discovered, smaller and thought to be "older' Mantas stay closer to the shore
A believed to be newly discovered 'type' of Giant Ray is even larger than the other and have what some believe to be a vestigial stinger which can be seen on them as a small 'bump' at the base of the tail (vestigial = an evolutionarily 'withered', and basically useless to the 'modern' animal, body part - in humans, the appendix is thought to be vestigial)
The discovery of the Giant Rays with this (thought by some) vestigial, "bump" now have people wondering - Which 'came first' - The smaller, more common Manta, or the Giant?
Although Stingrays are more aggressive, by virtue of their "stinger", both are basically 'peaceful' creatures.
There are other differences between the Manta and Stingray, but I believe what I've mentioned suffices as the "major" differences.
