It has a green body with baby blue spots. These rays can grow to a diameter of Instead, they can be found swimming in the open ocean. Their long body has an inky top that features spots while their bellies are white. They also have one of the longest tails of all the stingrays. Instead of a typical round body, eagle rays have bodies that make them look like they are flying with wings. If you had the choice to see only one ray it should be the Spotted Eagle Ray.
They can grow upwards of 16 feet 5 meters and weigh in at over lbs kg. The spotted eagle ray likes to swim in packs and can even be seen jumping out of the water hence its name. They can be spotted in water along the equator such as in Florida, Southeast Asia, and northern Australia. These are the largest of the rays and are part of the eagle family. Living mostly around coral reefs these large rays frequent tropical waters all over the world.
Their size may surprise you growing to 25 feet 7. Despite their size, they move gracefully through the water and are incredibly agile. Inadvertently standing on one often results in a nasty sting. Apart from its yellow-brown coloring and small size, you can also identify this stingray by its protruding eyes.
The giant freshwater stingray is one of the largest freshwater fish in the world. As you can guess by its name, this is a large species of stingray that lives in rivers, estuaries, and other freshwater environments. The giant freshwater stingray is classed as one of the largest freshwater fish in the world. This oval-shaped river stingray grows up to 6. Its pectoral fins are relatively thin and this huge stingray has a gray-brown body.
The freshwater ray is also identified by its long thin tail and elongated snout. Giant freshwater stingrays are found in rivers in Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Malaysia. The giant oceanic manta ray is identified by the white markings behind its head and on the tips of its fins.
Another of the ginormous types of stingrays is the giant oceanic manta ray. This is a ray that belongs to the eagle ray family and is found in tropical and temperate waters. The interesting coloring on this dark-colored stingray is one of its unique identification marks. The triangular-shaped fins are black or steely blue and have brilliant-white tips.
There are also white rectangular patters behind its head. These massive stingrays have an average size of 15 ft. They are rarely seen near coastlines as they prefer swimming in the ocean. However, you may see juveniles near the coast where they spend a few years before heading out to sea. The small pelagic stingray has a fan shaped body. The unusual feature of the deep ocean pelagic stingray is that it is wider than it is long. Its fins have a wedge-shaped appearance and its body is dark purple to blueish-green.
Unlike the other stingrays on this list, the pelagic ray is one of the few that live exclusively in deep oceans. However, they have a long, thin whip tail that they use to defend themselves. This can be as long as 4. The large bull ray lives in shallow waters and is critically endangered. Another type of giant ray that lives in shallow waters is the bull ray.
This large stingray gets its name from the bull-like shape of its head. In some countries, this fish has the name duckbill ray due to its round, flat snout. Bull rays grow to an average of 8 ft. There are also striped markings running horizontally across its dorsal fins. As with most stingrays, it has a white underbelly. The small bluntnose stingray is a nocturnal fish and is well camouflaged. The bluntnose stingray is a small type of ray fish that is found near the shores of the eastern coast of North America.
This small stingray is dark brown in color which provides great camouflage on the sandy or muddy ocean bottom. Bluntnose rays have a disc body in the shape of a diamond. Because these are nocturnal fish, they are rarely seen during the day. Injuries from bluntnose stingrays are rarely life-threatening, but the pain from the sting can be excruciating. The southern stingray. Photo Credit: oceana. The southern stingray feels most at home in warm, shallow waters, making the Gulf of Mexico ideal.
To help them stay hidden in the sand, this species has diamond-shaped disks in white on their belly and gray, black or dark brown diamond-shaped disks on their back. You can also identify these rays by their long, whip-like barbed tails. Surprisingly, female stingrays grow much bigger than males.
Females can reach around 6 feet in diameter, while males only reach 2. Both have a maximum weight of around pounds, which they grow to by eating worms, bivalves, crustaceans and small fish. It also has a very broad-angled snout and is dark at the top and light-colored underneath. Deepwater stingrays eat mostly boney fish and crustaceans , and they have an oval-shaped pectoral disc and a leaf-shaped fin at the tip of their tails.
Although most stingrays swim close to the bottom of the ocean, eagle rays are active swimmers in the open ocean, and, in fact, they are known to leap in and out of the water while they swim.
They prefer tropical temperatures and therefore are often found in the Caribbean Sea and the Indian Ocean. Along with the spotted eagle ray, eagle rays are very commonly found members of the stingray family.
They are also located in the North Atlantic seas, and they are often found with the ornate, mottled, banded, and bat eagle rays. While stingrays sting, manta rays are too large to have enemies, and skates use barbs to defend themselves, the electric rays instead use electric shocks to stun their prey. The shocks come from special electric organs located on both sides of their heads. They are also very powerful, able to generate up to volts and 30 amperes of electricity with each zap.
This is more than enough to take out small prey and injure or shock a human being. In fact, according to many experts, the electric rays are more electrically sensitive than any other animal. Electric rays are fairly large in size and can get up to six feet in diameter. They have a very round shape, thick tails, and rounded dorsal fins. Instead of using their pectoral fins to swim as most other stingrays do, these rays use their tails for swimming.
They are also located very deep under the ocean, as they can go as far down as 3, feet. Also called devil rays because of the two horn-like flaps in their mouths, manta rays are very large in size.
In fact, some can get up to nearly 30 feet in length and can weigh up to two tons. Despite their size, however, manta rays are not dangerous and never hurt either people or animals. They are quite curious, however, and often like to swim around the divers in the ocean. Because of this, they are protected in most areas, even though some people still hunt them illegally.
Moreover, they sometimes are seen jumping out of the water, which they do to get rid of parasites. Manta rays prefer warm waters and can be found in areas such as Japan, Rhode Island, and in the waters of Southern California. Consisting of a slender tail and a pectoral disc that is very round in shape, the round rays make up the Urotrygonidae stingray family.
They are also without dorsal fins. Round rays like warm water and they are very abundant among other stingrays of the same size.
They are mostly found in warm waters in places such as the Caribbean Sea and the coastlines of both North and South America. Round ray stingrays are mostly brown in color and sometimes have a spotted or mottled look , and their undersides are an orangish-white color.
They are also very hardy and become quite tame when found in captivity. The only member of the Hexatrygonidae family of stingrays, the sixgill stingray has six separate pairs of gill openings, as compared to the five that most other stingrays have, hence its name.
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