Weird creature found of coast in algeria... is it a ray??

ok i was looking around as i was bored and found this video on the following site
weird sea creature caught in algeria

was wondering if it was some sort of ray?? it kinda freaky though

Batfish

Or a skate


[edit on 7/11/2009 by Phage]

It's simply a ray lying on it's back, that's all.Nothing particuarly strange about it i'm afraid.

reply to post by ronishia
Yup, it's a manta ray I think. They often have features that we see as human-like. This'll be the only time in my life I use the Daily Mail as a source...it's just for an example...Wh o are you calling fish-face?!

That i have seen before, but it looks like something in Australia we would call a shovelnose ray.

here is the mouth



and here is the topside




But there are many different species of this ray so it could be different from the one in the pic.

Edit to add, thats not a manta ray, totally different species.

[edit on 11-7-2009 by pazcat]

i thought it was some sort of ray they are some very freaky creatures thats for sure very human like in the facial features

I believe this is an Atlantic Guitarfish.

Not a particularly rare member of the order rajiformes.