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Smiling Yellow Stingray

This is an Atlantic Yellow Stingray in the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher. The Yellow stingray has a mouth that is on the underside of its body, which is an inferior mouth location. With a inferior mouth placement, the Yellow Stingray would eat food that lives at the bottom of the ocean, making them an important predator of the ocean floor ecosystem. For example, the diet of this Stingray consists of shrimp, underwater worms, small fish, and clams.

 

 

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Uploaded on February 20, 2018