Devilfish vs. Manta — What's the Difference?

Any of various aquatic animals having hornlike appendages on the head or thought to have a sinister appearance, including the devil rays, the manta, and certain octopuses and squids.

A rough-textured cotton fabric or blanket made and used in Spanish America and the southwest United States.

(dated) Any of several not closely related marine animals:

A very large ray (Manta birostris) inhabiting tropical and subtropical seas, having a whiplike tail and two hornlike fins that project forward from the head, and feeding on plankton. Also called devil ray, manta ray.

The octopus.

A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States.

The giant squid or kraken.

Ellipsis of manta ray

The gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus.

The manta ray. See also Cephaloptera and Sea devil.

The piranha.

A blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl

The anglerfish, Lophius piscatorius.

Extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned

The suckermouth catfish, Hypostomus plecostomus (translating Spanish pez diablo).

The manta ray; any ray in the genus Mobula.

Certain fish in the genus Paraplesiops; see blue devilfish, Bleeker's devilfish.

A huge ray (Manta birostris or Cephaloptera vampyrus) of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera.

Medium-sized grayish-black whale of the northern Pacific

Bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles

Extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned