Whip-tail Stingray

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Whip-tail Stingray
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• Classification Cartilaginous Fish
• Family- Dasyatidae
• Habitat marine waters
• Symmetry bilateral
• Cellular Organization multicellular vertebrate
  with endoskeletons made of cartilage.
• Reproduction sexual external fertilization.
  Most rays are ovoviviparous bearing live young in
  "litters" of five to ten. The female holds the
  embryos in the womb without a placenta. Instead,
  the embryos absorb nutrients from a yolk sac, and
  after the sac is depleted the mother provides
  uterine milk.
• Method of Obtaining Food Feed primarily on
  mollusks and crustaceans. Cannot see prey. Use
  smell and electro-receptors to sense prey.
  Crushing plates in mouth break apart shells.
• Special Notes/Adaptations When attacked by
  predators or stepped on, the barbed stinger in
  its tail whips up. The stinger usually breaks off
  in the wound and will grow back.