Like the sticky says Mantilla stingrays have been collected from the wild and sold all over the world for many years. They do have differences in patterns or color but thats just like any other ray species, I would just thought about more with the mantillas as they are not so common. Just like any other ray that is wild caught, Marble, Leo, Henlei, Black Diamond, Tiger, castexi to name a few of the common ones. They all have little different variations, more spots, fewer spots, color variations, some washed out a bit, thousand island spotting, eclipse, grey to super black, dark brown to light or tan base color, and whatever else. Some say one is a higher quality than others and so on just depends how you want to look at it. And as you know line breeding brings out those rare varieties and we soon can call them common.
With that being said-
Some hybrid rays or line breed rays have been created for the amazing mantilla pattern. They have also been called mantillas because they don't really have any other classification for them so they call them a mantilla just because of the pattern similarities.
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