Cownose rays are known for their long migrations in large schools. They are strong swimmers, able to cover long distances. In the Atlantic Ocean, their migration is northward in the late spring and southward in the late fall.
Pacific cownose rays, Rhinoptera steindachneri, are viviparous, the newborn resemble adults.
Conservation Status/Additional Comments
Pacific cownose rays are harmless to humans.
Javanese cownose ray (Rhinoptera javanica)
Cownose rays (Rhinoptera) have earned their common name for their unusual-looking heads, which feature a double-lobed snout and indented... More 3 Images 0 videos ...
Discussion Cownose Rays feed primarily on hard-shelled mollusks that they crush with their powerful tooth plates. They sometimes occur in schools in bays during the summer and disappear in the winter.
An Australian Cownose Ray caught near Wattamolla
An Australian Damsel at North West Solitary Island
An Australian Damsel at South West Rocks
An Australian Lungfish from the Fish Collection
An Australian Mado at Macquarie Light ...
Eagle Rays: Cownose Ray
Rhinoptera bonasus
Eagle Rays: Spotted Eagle Ray
Aetobatus narinari
Electric Rays: Lesser Electric Ray
Narcine bancroftii
Guitarfishes: Atlantic Guitarfish
Rhinobatos lentiginosus
Manta Rays: Devil Ray ...
The decline of the scalloped hammerhead, and other great sharks in the Atlantic, has led to an increase in the cownose ray population which resulted in a collapse of the century-old North Carolina bay scallop industry.
MYLIOBATIFORMES
deepwater stingrays, sixgill stingrays, stingrays, butterfly rays, eagle rays, cownose rays, manta rays, devil rays, round stingrays, river stingrays
SPOTTED EAGLE RAY
SUBCLASS HOLOCEPHALI ...
There are banded stingarees and ocellate river rays, mangrove whiprays and bluespotted ribbontail rays, Australian butterfly rays and bat rays, Javanese cownose rays and manta rays.
 See also: Shark, Eagle, Eagle ray, Ray, Whale
  
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