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Rhinoptera bonasus (Mitchill, 1815) - cownose stingray teeth & skeletal mouthparts (public display, Greater Cleveland Aquarium, Cleveland, Ohio, USA). I've seen fossil stingray teeth several times, but never understood them until now. The aquarium display shown above is the skeletal mouth remains of a modern cownose stingray.
Cownose ray teeth and mouthparts. Stingray teeth consist of interlocking bars (dental plates) that crush food. The cownose ray exhibits a durophagous diet, meaning it feeds upon hard-shelled organisms, such as mollusks , crustaceans , but they prefer scallops or clams , which have softer shells and are categorized as bivalves . [ 2 ]
The oldest known stingray taxon is "Dasyatis" speetonensis from the Hauterivian of England, whose teeth most closely resemble that of the extant sixgill stingray (Hexatrygon). Although stingray teeth are rare on sea bottoms compared to the similar shark teeth , scuba divers searching for the latter do encounter the teeth of stingrays.
Batomorphi is a clade of cartilaginous fishes, commonly known as rays, this taxon is also known as the superorder Batoidea, but the 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies it as the division Batomorphi. [2]
The round ribbontail ray or blotched fantail ray, [1] (Taeniurops meyeni) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, found throughout the nearshore waters of the tropical Indo-Pacific, as well as off islands in the eastern Pacific.
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The common stingray has a plain coloration and mostly smooth skin. The common stingray has been reported to reach a width of 1.4 m (4.6 ft) and a length of 2.5 m (8.2 ft), though a width of 45 cm (18 in) is more typical. [8] The flattened pectoral fin disc is diamond-shaped and slightly wider than it is long, with narrowly rounded outer corners ...
Kuhl's maskray (Neotrygon kuhlii), also known as the blue-spotted stingray, blue-spotted maskray, or Kuhl's stingray, is a species of stingray of the family Dasyatidae. It was recently changed from Dasyatis kuhlii in 2008 after morphological and molecular analyses showed that it is part of a distinct genus, Neotrygon . [ 2 ]