stingray vs manta ray

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Are they same ? I search from the internet. I saw the picture that they are almost same. Am I right?

Feebs11 · Accepted Answer

They are totally different animals. There are very many different types of stingrays in two genuses: Himantura and Dasyatis - which characteristically have a poisonous stinging mechanism in their tails. Manta rays have only one genus, Manta, with three species identified. They do not have a tail or sting.

Vincent Teo · Answer

Can you show me the picture? I still not very clear about it. I have search through internet, but... it's same.

Can find the picture for me ? thanks!!

Vincent Teo · Answer

Can Anyone show me the picture? I'm not very clear..

Tanit · Answer

Hi Vincent,

When I come across the name of an animal or a plant in English, dictionaries are usually not of great help.
In such cases, I usually look them up in Wikipedia. For instance, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manta_ray"
If you're lucky (as I am), in the bottom left-hand side of the page you'll find a link to a similar page in your language, which will enable you to see what they are called in your own language.

Another tool you might find useful is "Google Images." Here are http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=manta+ray&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2, and http://images.google.co.uk/images?gbv=2&hl=en&q=stingray&btnG=Search+Images.

Anonymous · Answer

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Anonymous · Answer

No, sorry, but that is incorrect. Manta's have large mouths used to such up plankton. Stingrays have rather small mouths. Stingrays have barbs at the end of their tails that stores vemon and can be shot out when they feel threatend. Manta's do not. Manta's are called the bird's of the ocean becuase of their "wings" and how they flap them to get around through the ocean. Stingrays mostly stay at the botton while Manta's go any where they please. Lastly, a full sized Manta is much bigger than a full sized stingray. Mantas are rarely kept in captivity as only four in the world are. Many stingrays are in aquariums and can be petted on the back. Manta rays are very curious about people and come up to them. Stingrays mind to themselves most of the time. BUt if you touch a manta ray, they develope a skin infection. So no, they aren't alike, except for being rays. Hope I helped! <img src="http://www.EnglishForward.com/emoticons/emotion-1.gif"/>

Anonymous · Answer

Just wanted to mention also that a Manta ray is HUGE. They can have a 25ft wing span. Like what was said above the size is no comparison.

Anonymous · Answer

You are wrong - Mantas do have a tail. Yes, no sting, but they have a tail.

Anonymous · Answer

I swam with manta rays in discovery cove Florida. I also touched stingrays in sea world. They look similar but mantas were larger. Both have narrow long tails & obviously mantas are friendly & do not sting.

Anonymous · Answer

I have manta rays in my back yard right now, saw them mating earlier today, I have Common stingrays on the beach up the street, saw them surfing yesterday. They are definitely different but not in any of the ways noted here and they are indeed basically the same thing, well, different Families of the same Suborder of cartilagenous fishes (Myliobatoidei). So they are the same type of fish, but there are different families, which have nothing to do with stingers.

Once, when I had relieved a large Atlantic Stingray of her guarded lobster near Sand Key in Key West, that big ray rammed me in the stomach with her nose. They are smart creatures. i ate the lobsters.

Stingrays, officially, are all of the rays, so they are the same. They are all batoids. Myliobatiformes. There are suborders, like Dasyatoidea, which is where we find the Family /wiki/Myliobatidae (eagle rays). The Mobula is a genus of Eagle Ray commonly called Manta Rays, which are filter feeders. which we commonly see jumping in the air or investigating us on the reef. So, Manta Rays are Eagle Rays are Stingrays. There are nine recognized species of Manta Rays, the Devil Fish is what we have off shore in Florida (mobula mobular).

But, in that same suborder we have rays with stingers, like Whiptails down in Costa Rica or River Rays. There is even a Myliobatidae, or Eagle Rays, that has a stinger, The Cow Nose Ray,(/wiki/Rhinoptera) which are the ones mating off our dock right now. So, what makes them in a family? Its their behaviour, size and shape, lots of things. Mantas are typically pelagic filter feeders and the other families are benthic. Rivers and deep water have their own families. Round and butterfly shaped rays have their own families.

The main thing to understand is this is a beautiful exampe of ***'s use of triangles in nature and how smart and wonderful these creatures are. I stepped on 3 or 4 stingrays this weekend surfing and never got stung. If you do get stung, don't listen to anyone else, all you need to do is put your wound in hotter than hot water for thirty minutes, keep adding fresh hot water, your foot should turn red, as hot as you can stand it, lift your foot out , then put it back in, you will be fine in one hour.
Shuffling your feet will prevent getting stung.

If you see a manta ray in your life in the wild, then your lucky enough.

Captain Rod Baker
Indian Rocks Beach, FL.

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