Sea bat - Bifen (bat ray) Endless ocean, strange creatures live, today we are going to introduce it - Bifen (bī fèn). Bifen is a very strange appearance, living among the fish in the ocean, which we are familiar with the sharks and have close family relationships with are cartilaginous fish. It's that look, Bifen look to do the same only the big bats fly, so people call it vulgar "Bat fish."
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Manta Division
(Mobulidae) is the largest project the type of skate, up to 8 meters in length and weighs 3 tons, the body flat, has a strong pectoral fins, like wings, in the ocean cruise, two thin before pectoral fin, narrow, like the ears protruding from the mouth to collect food, the teeth small, mainly feed on plankton and small fish, often feeding in the coral reefs near the parade and gentle. In English, was wrong as the "devil fish", mainly in the shape of scary. Now only found three. Manta Section 3 genera and about 10 species, 2 genera and 4 species in China. Body large, wide-body disk, up to 6 meters, weigh up to 3,000 kg. Diamond body plate, a large square flat; snout wide and horizontal level; head into the first part of pectoral fins, located in the sides of the head; tail slender, such as whips, with a small dorsal fin, with or without spines; mouth wide, anterior or inferior; teeth thin and more pavement-like arrangement of the past; on the jaw with a tooth belt, or upper jaw toothless; nose just before the two sides in the mouth, the water hole openings in the mouth corner; water hole small, triangular , in the eyes, there is a considerable distance away from the eye; gill openings wide; belt deep curved, sharp sudden extension of the middle. Ovoviviparous. Fossils found in the Tertiary to modern times. Manta is about 6 ~ 7. China now has three kinds: Japan Manta distributed in the South China Sea and East China Sea; Manta seen in the South China Sea without thorns (thornless manta rays (Mobula diabolus)). Before the port before the port Manta Manta is only 1 species: Before the mouth of Manta: China coast from the sea Jieyou distribution, display seasonal migratory phenomenon. Manta Point is produced in the Caribbean.