Diver with Sting rays, Stingray City Sandbar, Grand Cayman Island, Cayman Islands, Caribbean

Cowtail stingray, Pastinachus sephen, captive, Oahu, Hawaii (Pacific)

Southern Sting Ray (Dasyatis Americana) swimming over sandy seabed in shallow water. Cayman Islands.

Cowtail Stingray (Pastinachus sephen) captive, Oahu, Hawaii (Pacific)

Large group of pink whipray or Tahitian stingray, Himantura fai, Rongelap, Marshall Islands, Micronesia

Adult Spinetail Mobula (Mobula japanica) massing in huge schools (possible mating behaviour? ) in the upper Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez), Mexico. Note the long whip-like tail (longer than the length of the body) with sting at the base - a unique fiel

Feathertail stingray (Pastinachus sephen) feeding in the sand. Na'ama Bay, Sharm El Sheikh, South Sinai, Red Sea, Egypt.

Southern stingray lying in the sandy bottom of a cavern, Dasyatis americana, Ressurreta, Fernando de Noronha national marine sanctuary, Pernambuco, Brazil (South Atlantic)

Adult Spinetail Mobula (Mobula japanica) leaping out of the water in the upper Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez), Mexico. Note the long whip-like tail (longer than the length of the body) with sting at the base - a unique field diagnostic to this species

Adult Spinetail Mobula (Mobula japanica) leaping out of the water in the upper Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez), Mexico. Note the long whip-like tail (longer than the length of the body) with sting at the base - a unique field diagnostic to this species

Diver with Sting rays, Stingray City Sandbar, Grand Cayman Island, Cayman Islands, Caribbean

Diver with Sting rays, Stingray City Sandbar, Grand Cayman Island, Cayman Islands, Caribbean

Sting Ray at Sting Ray City. Caymans.