From the underside
Most of the time, Stingrays are bottom dwellers, preferring to bury themselves in the sand to rest/hide or ambush their prey. However, at this dive site called Fish Tank, they swim freely in the water column and it is possible to get a picture of them from the underside to observe their mouth and gills.
The pink whipray is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, with a wide but ill-defined distribution in the tropical Indo-Pacific from southern Africa to Polynesia. It is a bottom dweller that generally inhabits shallow water under 70 m deep, in sandy areas associated with coral reefs. Individuals exhibit a high degree of fidelity to particular locations. The pink whipray has a diamond-shaped pectoral fin disc wider than long, with a broad-angled snout and a very long, whip-like tail.. more
