Ray

Beautiful pattern but dangerous animal;


manta ray; electric ray; guitarfish; sawfish; skate; stingray, whip-tailed rays, butterfly rays, stingrays, eagle rays, and cow-nosed rays

"Common to the rays of all these families is a long, slender, whiplike tail that usually has a barbed spine connected with a poison gland; this spine is capable of inflicting serious wounds and is a dangerous weapon when the tail is lashed. Almost all of these rays are inhabitants of warm seas, except for a few species of stingray that live in the rivers of South America."

Chondrichthyes. The order includes 534 species!