Rays

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There are more than 400 species of fish. These fish include manta rays and stingrays.

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Most rays have a flat, disklike body with large pectoral fins which form "wings." and live on the sea floor.

Rays, like sharks, have a boneless skeleton made of a tough, elastic substance called cartilage. They feed on such bottom-dwelling creatures as clams, oysters, shellfish, and certain fish. Rays have slotlike body openings called "gill slits" that lead from the gills.

Ray eggs are fertilized inside the female's body and hatch inside the female. The young are born alive.

Stingray

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.The stingray stings by its tail. The stingers are sharp spines. The stingers are poisonous. If you get stung it is very painful. Freshwater rays live in South America. Some are seven feet long.

Manta Ray

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 Manta rays live in the upper waters of the open sea and feed on small sea animals and on tiny organisoms called plankton. .