2021年7月14日 · The Anatomy of a Manta Ray: Body Parts. Viewing from the topside of a manta ray, you’ll find pectoral fins, cephalic horns, eyes, and a tail. Even though manta rays have tails, they can actually exist without one.

2024年2月23日 · The reef manta ray disc has a width of 3 to 3.5 meters, while the giant manta ray lives up to its name measuring up to 9 meters wide. The head of both species is wide, eyes on each side and the long nose in front.

2023年9月11日 · Manta rays have well-developed eyes positioned on the sides of their heads. This gives them an optimal field of vision; however, they do have two “blind spots:” one in front of them and the other directly behind them.

Manta rays are large rays belonging to the genus Mobula (formerly its own genus Manta). The larger species, M. birostris, reaches 7 m (23 ft) in width, while the smaller, M. alfredi, reaches 5.5 m (18 ft). Both have triangular pectoral fins, horn-shaped cephalic fins …

2021年8月10日 · THE ANATOMY OF A MANTA RAY: BODY PARTS. Viewing from the topside of a manta ray, you’ll find pectoral fins, cephalic horns, eyes and a tail. Even though manta rays have tails, they can actually exist without one.

The eyes and the spiracles are on the side of the head behind the cephalic fins, and the gill slits are on the ventral (under) surface. It has a small dorsal fin and the tail is long and whip-like. The manta ray does not have a spiny tail as do the closely related devil rays (Mobula spp.) but has a knob-like bulge at the base of its tail. [10]

3 天之前 · These differences, while subtle to the untrained eye, are crucial for marine biologists to distinguish between the two species. In essence, the giant manta ray is larger, has a rougher skin, a caudal thorn, and specific ventral spotting patterns, while the reef manta ray is smaller, has smooth skin, lacks a caudal thorn, and generally exhibits ...

Their eyes are located just behind their cephalic fins, ideally positioned for seeing forward and downward. Their ability to see upward and to the rear is limited. Mantas have the largest brain to body ratio of all elasmobranchs (sharks and rays), and on a par to that of marsupials and birds.

The eyes are located laterally, on each side of the head, at the base of the cephalic fins. The gills are located ventrally, or on the ray’s belly. The prey are caught on the manta ray’s gill rakers, which are flat plates of spongy tissue covering the spaces between the gill bars.

That is a great way to tell them apart from other types of rays. Most of them feature the mouth is below. The manta ray also has very large eyes located laterally. What is very interesting about their anatomy is that they are able to live in both ocean water and freshwater.