Baby sting ray - A stingray which looks like it has 2 legs.
Cute! It was photographed at an aquarium in Brighton, UK.
The stingrays are a group of rays, which are cartilaginous fishes related to sharks.
They are classified in the suborder Myliobatoidei of the order Myliobatiformes, and consist of eight families: Hexatrygonidae (sixgill stingray), Plesiobatidae (deep water stingray), Urolophidae (stingarees), Urotrygonidae (round rays), Dasyatidae (whiptail stingrays), Potamotrygonidae (river stingrays), Gymnuridae (butterfly rays), and Myliobatidae (eagle rays).
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