Anatomy Of A Stingray

What makes rays unusual is that their wing like fins stretch out flat from their bodies making them look like a disc with a tail. Stingrays are members of the group of fish that also includes sharks and skates.

Ray Anatomy Lizzie Harper

1 pelvic fins 2 caudal tubercles 3 stinger 4 dorsal fin 5 claspers 6 tail the venom of the stingray has been relatively unstudied due to the mixture of venomous tissue secretions cells and mucous membrane cell products that occurs upon secretion from the spinal blade.

Anatomy of a stingray. The stingray has a very interesting shape to it. A stingrays eyes are on the dorsal side of the body topupper side. Stingrays are disk shaped and have flexible tapering tails armed in most species with one or more saw edged venomous spines.

They spend the majority of their time inactive partially buried in sand often moving only with the sway of the tide. Stingrays have an anatomy composed of a flattened body and on their body consists of pectoral fins joined to their head and trunk with their tail behind. Sharks and rays have skeletons made of flexible cartilage instead of bone.

The body is flat and they feature a tail that is long and thin. Stingrays are commonly found in the shallow coastal waters of temperate seas. The venom is very strong in the stingers and it could result in a person becoming very ill or even dying.

On the underside of the stingray lies the mouth nostrils and gill slits. They are sometimes placed in a single family dasyatidae but often separated into two families dasyatidae and urolophidae. The tail is where the stingers are located.

Stingray any of a number of flat bodied rays noted for the long sharp spines on their tails. Posterior anatomy of a stingray.

2 Basic Internal Anatomy Of The Brown Stingray Dasyatis