Species Profile
Trygon
Stingray
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassChondrichthyes
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Trygon lives on sea floor.
Carnivorous and sluggish.
Important elasmobranch example.
Size & Structure
01
Disc-shaped body
02
Long whip-like tail
03
Poisonous spine
04
Eyes on dorsal side
Trygon — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Coelomate
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Deuterostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Well developed
- Excretory organ
- Kidneys
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Closed circulation, single
- Development type
- Viviparous
- Respiratory type
- Branchial respiration
- Mode of excretion
- Ureotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton (cartilaginous)
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Benthic predator
Controls invertebrates
Sea floor balance
Economic Importance
Medical importance (venom)
Research value
Fisheries relevance