This Monday, a reader sent La Voz a video where you can see how a specimen of stingray swam calmly through the Charco de San Ginés. This animal is very common on the beaches of the Canary Islands and can measure up to two and a half meters long and almost one and a half meters wide.
As for its color, it is greenish gray tending to brown on the back, while on the front it is yellowish white with dark edges. Its eyes are on the upper part of its body, near the spiracles with which it sucks water and is able to breathe even under the sand with its five pairs of ventral gills.
In addition to the Canary Islands, stingrays can also be found in the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, in the south and west of Africa, west of the Baltic, north and west of England, and through the Skagerrak Strait, between Norway and Denmark.