Stingray (disambiguation)

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Stingrays are members of a family of rays related to skates and sharks.

Stingray or Sting Ray may also refer to:

Contents 1 Ichthyology 2 Transportation 3 Military 4 Television 5 Fiction 6 Sports 7 Geography 8 Other

[edit] Ichthyology

• Deepwater stingrays (Plesiobatidae), family of rays
  • Deepwater stingray (Plesiobatis daviesi)
• River stingrays (Potamotrygonidae), family of neotropical freshwater rays
  • Long-tailed river stingray (Plesiotrygon iwamae)
  • Ocellate river stingray (Potamotrygon motoro)
• Sixgill stingrays (Hexatrygonidae), family of rays containing a single genus
• Stingrays (Dasyatidae), family of rays
  • Atlantic stingray (Dasyatis sabina)
  • Blotched fantail ray (Taeniura meyeni)
  • Blue stingray (Dasyatis chrysonota)
  • Bluespotted ribbontail ray (Taeniura lymma)
  • Bluespotted stingray (Dasyatis kuhlii)
  • Freshwater whipray (Himantura chaophraya)
  • Kittipong's stingray (Himantura kittipongi)
  • Longtail stingray (Dasyatis longa), found on sandy-bottomed rocky and coral reefs in the eastern Pacific
  • Pelagic stingray (Pteroplatytrygon violacea)
  • Scaly whipray (Himantura imbricata)
  • Short-tail stingray (Dasyatis brevicaudata), the largest stingray in the world
  • Southern stingray (Dasyatis americana)
  • Thorntail stingray (Dasyatis thetidis)

[edit] Transportation

• Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray, model of automobile
• Sting Ray, very popular model of bicycle manufactured by Schwinn in the 1960s and 70s and resurrected in 2004

[edit] Military

• Sting Ray torpedo, Royal Navy weapon
• Stingray Light Tank, American manufactured light battle tank
• USS Stingray (SS-186), Salmon-class submarine
• A make of boat-trapping net dropped from a helicopter: see Foster-Miller and [1].

[edit] Television

• Stingray (NBC TV series), short-lived NBC television series produced by Stephen J. Cannell that ran from 1985 to 1987
• Stingray (TV series), British television show for children using marionettes, produced by Gerry Anderson.

[edit] Fiction

• El Stingray, video game character in Capcom's Slam Masters series
• Mackey Stingray, fictional character from the Bubblegum Crisis anime
• Scott "Stingray" Timmins, was a fictional character from the television series Neighbours
• Stingray (comics), Marvel Comics character
• Sylia Stingray, fictional character from the Japanese anime series Bubblegum Crisis
• USS Stingray (SS-161), fictitious U.S. Navy diesel engine submarine featured in the 1996 comedy film Down Periscope
• Fire Stingray, a car from the F-Zero racing videogame series.

[edit] Sports

• The Long Beach Stingrays, a defunct American professional women's basketball team in the American Basketball League (1996-1998)
• The South Carolina Stingrays, an ECHL professional minor-league hockey team
• Hull Stingrays, a British Ice Hockey club from Kingston upon Hull, England (whose logo distinctly resembles that of the Long Beach Stingrays)
• The Rhode Island Stingrays are an American soccer team
• The Dandenong Stingrays, an Australian rules football team in a Victorian under 18s league
• The Gold Coast Stingrays, a Gridiron (American rules football) Club that plays in the Gridiron Queensland League
• The Florida Stingrays, a team of the American Indoor Football Association set to begin play in 2008
• Kurnell Stingrays, an amateur rugby league football club in the Cronulla-Sutherland District Rugby Football League
• The San Diego Stingrays, a defunct semi-professional basketball team, a member of the International Basketball League (IBL), whose most prominent player was the rapper Master P
• A role of crazy martial master played by Don Niam in Underfeatable

[edit] Geography

• Stingray City, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
• Stingray Point, United States

[edit] Other

• Music Man StingRay, bass guitar by Music Man
• Stingray Nebula, the youngest known planetary nebula
• Stingray Pipeline, natural gas pipeline which brings natural gas from the offshore Gulf of Mexico to Louisiana
• "Stingray", a tune by the British group The Shadows