Dasyatis pastinaca (Common Stingray)

Dasyatis pastinaca, or the common stingray, is the most commonest species of stingray, found in the Mediterranean Sea, northeastern Atlantic Ocean, and Black Sea. It usually inhabits sand, mud, or the like places near the coast, typically shallower than 200 feet (60 m) in depth. It buries itself to hide and wait for small creatures it hunts in and out of the sand or muck, mostly bottom-dwelling crustaceans. It will also eat mollusks, polychaete worms, and small bony fishes. Just like most stingrays, it has at least (unless used) one venomous and pain inflicting spiner on its whip-like tail, called a stinger. The common stingray can shed it stingers, regrow stingers, and normally haves up to a max of 3 stingers.