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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.
The full body of a blue-spotted stingray, showing the black-and-white-striped tail. Kuhl's maskrays have a flat, disc-like, rhomboid body up to 47 cm (19 in) in diameter and 70 cm (28 in) in total length. [7] [8] Their coloring is a dark green with blue spots with a light white underbelly, also known as countershading.
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 bizarre Lessiniabatis of Early Eocene Italy. Permineralized stingray teeth have been found in sedimentary deposits around the world as far back as the Early Cretaceous.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).
In addition, it has a variable but distinctive light and dark mottled pattern on its upper surface, and a black tail. Generally nocturnal , the round ribbontail ray can be solitary or gregarious, and is an active predator of small, benthic molluscs , crustaceans , and bony fishes .
The Xingu River ray, River stingray, white-blotched river stingray, or polka-dot stingray (Potamotrygon leopoldi) is a species of freshwater fish in the family Potamotrygonidae. It is endemic to the Xingu River basin in Brazil and as such prefers clear waters with rocky bottoms. [ 1 ]
A bluespotted ribbontail ray in Komodo National Park, Indonesia. The bluespotted ribbontail ray was originally described as Raja lymma by Swedish naturalist Peter Forsskål, in his 1775 Descriptiones Animalium quae in itinere ad maris australis terras per annos 1772, 1773, et 1774 suscepto collegit, observavit, et delineavit Joannes Reinlioldus Forster, etc., curante Henrico Lichtenstein. [2]
The round stingray has a nearly round pectoral fin disc usually colored brown or grayish brown above, with pale yellow spots or reticulations. Some individuals are plain or black. The underside is white to yellowish. The tail is short and stout, with a long, thick, serrated stinging spine.