Know your seafood variety
Ray / Skates
Guitar fish
Javanese Cow Ray
Ray
Spotted Ray
Rays and skates are bottom dwelling elasmobranchs sharing similar
diamond or rhomboid shape.
Rays are kite shaped with streamlined tails that may have one or more posonous spines.
Skate tails are fleshier and havier, have small fins, also called guitar fish.
Skates - Each pelvic fin divided into two lobes, tail relatively stocky
without a stinging spine. Tail usually with two small dorsal fins near its tip
Rays - Each pelvic fin with one lobe, tail relatively slender to whip-like,
usually with a saw-edged stinging spine midway along its length.
Shorttail Stingray: Dasyatis sp
Body round disc like.
No caudal fin, Dorsal fins are absent
Tail long whip like with one or more poisonous sharp spine
In some species tail fold also present.
Eagle Ray: Myliobatis
Snout broad and short, connected to pectoral disc by a
broad ridge under each eye
Pectoral tip blunt, hardly falcate
Disc chocolate-brown to black above, white below no
prominent markings.
Marathi -Chamli pakat
Konkani - Waghole
Malayalam - Thirandi
Tamil - Savukku thirukkai
Telugu - Tarukuteki / Mulluteku
Oriya - Sankara / Sankucha
Bengali - Sankar murali
Flesh is sweet and tender. it is very meaty
has a very mild taste, a nutty taste.
Wings prefered due to strands of flesh and cartilage. The flesh can be removed from cartilage
after it is cooked.
Good for pan fry, The white flesh peel of the bone.
Note: It needs to be skined before it is cooked
