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what is stingary2007-11-24 2:03:33Answers:

Dasyatidae is a family of rays, cartilaginous marine fishes.

Dasyatids are common in tropical coastal waters throughout the world, and there are fresh water species in Asia (Himantura sp.), Africa, and Florida (Dasyatis sabina). Most dasyatids are neither threatened nor endangered. The species of the genera Potamotrygon, Paratrygon, and Plesiotrygon are all endemic to the freshwaters of South America.

Dasyatids swim with a "flying" motion, propelled by motion of their large pectoral wings (commonly mistaken as "fins"). Their stinger is a razor-sharp, barbed or serrated cartilaginous spine which grows from the ray's whip-like tail (like a fingernail). It is coated with a toxic venom. This gives them their common name of stingrays, but the name can also be used to refer to any poisonous ray.

Some adult rays may be no larger than a human palm, while other species, like the short-tail stingray, may have a body of six feet in diameter, and an overall length, including their tail, of fourteen feet. Like other rays, dasyatids are viviparous, bearing live young in "litters" of five to ten.

Go to the following site for more info.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/stingray.

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Um do you mean a Stingray?? Um.a stingray is an ocean animal with a stinger called a barb as a tail? Um.it uh.swims? in the ocean?

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http://www.jmphillips.com/stingrayboy/im.

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It's the type of salt water critter that killed the Crocodile Hunter. Their barbs are very sharp and lethal.

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Go to these links and you will find pics and a description of a Stingray.