Bluespotted Ribbontail Ray

Genus Species

Physical Apperances

• blue dots (poison sign)
• yellow and brownish skin
• eyes that stick up from the body

Average Size and shape

• Width- 42 cm (17 in)
• A little thicker than paper
• a thick pancake with blue spots and eyes

Movement

Physical Adaptations

• Blue dots- for camouflage and poison warning
• They are venomous/poisonous to get prey and fight predators
• long tail to strike prey and predators

Behavioral Adaptations

• Feeds on bottom dwellers
• stays in sandy and high tide areas
• whips tail to get prey and fight predators

It lives in...

Map of This Creature

Abiotic

• Average Depth- 100 ft (30 meters)
• Average Light- 660 ft (200 meters)
• Average Temperature- 104 degrees to 27 degrees (in F)

Biotic

• Plants- seaweed and algae
• Animals- shrimp, cod, crabs

How do we negatively impact it?

• Throwing trash to where it runs with current
• Hunting for certain fish/animals the ray eats

Postive Impacts

• Starting a group that helps habitat
• reducing amount of trash we throw into the seas.

Tracking and Studying

• By looking at route of destinations every year
• taking a census
• tagging them

What could we do?

• clean up oceans (no litter)
• stop hunting for the animals my creature eats

It is a...

Predator

To Capture or to Catch

• Uses it's tail to strike predators
• uses the venomous spikes on spots to poison animals

Where on the Pyramid?

• I think my animal we be near the top on the pyramid because it is a consumer and has a predator that is the last in a food chain.

Consumer

• Doesn't produce it's own food
• Dosen't have chlorophyl
• Eats other animals

If the Ray Didn't Exist...

• all things eaten by animal will eventually overpopulate
• Predators may become extinct due to absent food

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