Stingray

Stingrays are flat marine fish which appear minimally in the How to Train Your Dragon Franchise.

Description
The stingrays are cartilaginous fish, closely related to sharks, belonging to the order Myliobatiformes. They are divided into eight families.

The stingray is most well known for the stinger that is present on the end of tail. It uses the stinger to pierce through and stop it's prey before it can escape. The stinger is razor-sharp, barbed or serrated and attached to the stingray's thin tail. This means the stingray can whip it's stinger to pretty much anywhere, extremely quickly as the long tail of the stingray is extremely agile and very flexible.

Stingrays breed during the winter and the female gives birth to live young usually between 5 and 15 baby stingrays, known as a litter. The babies develop inside the mother stingray for around 9 months and feed off the remaining yolk in their eggs sacks. When this runs out, the baby stingrays are feed milk in the uterus of the female stingray. When the babies are born, they are able to swim about and begin hunting with their mother.

Function
The main use of the stingray in both franchise and real life is as food. Its wing especially, are the most prized, commonly eaten dried.

Due to their docile behaviour, stingrays are a common tourist attraction of many places.

Dragon Down
During Hiccup's opening narration, a woman is seen selling fresh fish, including a stingray.