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Image Bank - Sharks and Rays

Cowtail Stingray,Swimming

Reference

IB2944

Category

Sharks and Rays

Family Name

Stingrays - DASYATIDAE

Common Name

Cowtail Stingray,Swimming

Scientific Name

Pastinachus atrus

Artist Name

Roger Swainston

Notes

Stingrays have tail usually armed with one or two very sharp, barded, venomous spines, which can inflict extremely painful wounds and have caused human fatalities. Stingrays have flattened crushing teeth and feed on invertebrates such as crustaceans, molluscs and small fishes.

Source : Swainston’s Fishes of Australia

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