StingRays

What is your animal?
The sting ray
What scientific name and animal classification is your animal? Taeniura melanospila
Describe the physical features of your animal: The stingray is like a Rounded disc with wings brown with darker mottling; two spines on tail. Lives On mud, shale and sand near reefs and is 130 cm. The wingspan of a stingray is about 5 foot
In which ocean of the world does your animal live? Southern stingrays are found at shallow reefs in Florida and the Bahamas to the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean and coastal central and South America.
What is the diet of my animal? Stingrays like to eat mollusks and fish such as Garfish, Barracuda, and ECT.
What special animal behavior does your animal show? If stepped on or attacked the stingray will sting with its poisonous spur at the end of its tail.
These pages were written by Martin Dikkenberg year 6
1998