The manta ray is the largest of the ray species.

Although it is not aggressive, when disturbed, it is powerful enough to destroy small boats.

Its size and strength often scares divers, because once it gets angry, it can break bones and kill people with its powerful "wings".

The manta ray's habits are also very strange.

It has a lively temperament and often plays pranks.

Sometimes it deliberately dives to the bottom of the boat sailing in the sea, using its body wing to beat the bottom of the boat, making a "whirring, snapping" sound, making the people on the boat panic.

Sometimes it runs to the boat moored in the sea, hanging its flesh horns on the boat's anchor chain, pulling up the small iron anchor.

So that people do not know what to do.

Or it uses its head fin to hang itself In the boat's anchor chain, dragging the boat to run around fast in the sea, so that fishermen think that this is the "devil" in the monster, this is actually manta ray prank.

Manta rays and rays are so similar in appearance that many people will mistake them for each other.

Both belong to the subclass Planktivorous, but manta rays are of the genus Manta rays, and rays are of the genus Manta rays.

Because the order is different, so the difference is still relatively large, can be seen as two different fish.

1.Shape difference

The body of manta ray is flat, the head is wider, and there are two cephalic fins from the pectoral fins on both sides.

The pectoral fins are thicker, like wings.

The dorsal fin is small and the tail is long and thin, with one or more venomous spines at the top.

Its teeth are thin and numerous, and its gill holes are wide.

The skate has a round or prismatic body with a wide pectoral fin that flares out from the end of the muzzle to the tail and two dorsal fins.

2.Different distribution

Manta rays mainly inhabit in tropical and subtropical shallow sea areas, rarely stay on the sea floor, generally from the surface water layer near the coast to 120 meters deep can be seen.

While the distribution range of rays is much wider, from the tropics to the Arctic near the waters have.

3.Different food habits

The manta ray usually feeds on plankton and small fish, and usually feeds near coral reefs.

When swimming, the front fins can bring food to the mouth, and the gill rakes filter out the water, leaving the food behind.

The ray usually feeds on animals on the sea floor, such as crabs and lobsters, and when it grows up it can prey on mollusks such as squid.

Manta ray fish it does not like and other fish conflict, in the frightened or other fish attack.

They will send similar frog jumping way to escape, it usually very like to hide themselves under the sand, and its main food is the sea floating plankton.

Of course, if the plankton is not satisfied, they will also eat some small fish and shrimp.