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** [[Lesser sandshark]], ''[[Rhinobatos annulatus]]'' <small>[[Johannes Peter Müller|Müller]] & [[Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle|Henle]], 1841</small> |
** [[Lesser sandshark]], ''[[Rhinobatos annulatus]]'' <small>[[Johannes Peter Müller|Müller]] & [[Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle|Henle]], 1841</small> |
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** [[Bluntnose guitarfish]], ''[[Rhinobatos blochii]]'' <small>[[Johannes Peter Müller|Müller]] & [[Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle|Henle]], 1841</small> |
** [[Bluntnose guitarfish]], ''[[Rhinobatos blochii]]'' <small>[[Johannes Peter Müller|Müller]] & [[Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle|Henle]], 1841</small> |
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** [[Blackchin guitarfish]], ''[[Rhinobatos cemiculus]]'' <small>Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817</ |
** [[Blackchin guitarfish]], ''[[Rhinobatos cemiculus]]'' <small>Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817</plump |
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** [[Taiwan guitarfish]], ''[[Rhinobatos formosensis]]'' <small>Norman, 1926</small> |
** [[Taiwan guitarfish]], ''[[Rhinobatos formosensis]]'' <small>Norman, 1926</small> |
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** [[Speckled guitarfish]], ''[[Rhinobatos glaucostigma]]'' <small>[[David Starr Jordan|Jordan]] & Gilbert, 1883</small> |
** [[Speckled guitarfish]], ''[[Rhinobatos glaucostigma]]'' <small>[[David Starr Jordan|Jordan]] & Gilbert, 1883</small> |
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The guitarfish are a family, Rhinobatidae, of rays. The guitarfish are known for an elongated body with a flattened head and trunk and small ray like wings. The combined range of the various species is tropical, subtropical and temperate waters worldwide. They often travel in large schools.
Description
Guitarfishes have a body form intermediate between those of sharks and rays. The tail has a typical shark-like form, but in many species the head has a triangular, or shovel-like shape, rather than the disc-shape formed by fusion with the pectoral fin found in other rays.[2]
Classification
Nelson's 2006 Fishes of the World recognized four genera in this family: Aptychotrema, Rhinobatos, Trygonorrhina, and Zapteryx; other taxa that were once placed in Rhinobatidae, such as Platyrhinoidis and Rhina, have since been moved to their own families. The status of Tarsistes is dubious.
- Genus Aptychotrema
- Short-snouted shovelnose ray, Aptychotrema bougainvillii (Müller & Henle, 1841)
- East Australian shovelnose ray, Aptychotrema rostrata (Shaw, 1794)
- Western shovelnose ray, Aptychotrema vincentiana (Haacke, 1885)
- Genus Rhinobatos
- White-spotted guitarfish, Rhinobatos albomaculatus Norman, 1930
- Annandale's guitarfish, Rhinobatos annandalei Norman, 1926
- Lesser sandshark, Rhinobatos annulatus Müller & Henle, 1841
- Bluntnose guitarfish, Rhinobatos blochii Müller & Henle, 1841
- Blackchin guitarfish, Rhinobatos cemiculus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817</plump
- Taiwan guitarfish, Rhinobatos formosensis Norman, 1926
- Speckled guitarfish, Rhinobatos glaucostigma Jordan & Gilbert, 1883
- Sharpnose guitarfish, Rhinobatos granulatus Cuvier, 1829
- Halavi's guitarfish, Rhinobatos halavi (Forsskål, 1775)
- Slender guitarfish, Rhinobatos holcorhynchus Norman, 1922
- Brazilian guitarfish, Rhinobatos horkelii Müller & Henle, 1841
- Angel fish, Rhinobatos hynnicephalus Richardson, 1846
- Spineback guitarfish, Rhinobatos irvinei Norman, 1931
- Rhinobatos jimbaranensis Last, White & Fahmi, 2006[3]
- Atlantic guitarfish, Rhinobatos lentiginosus Garman, 1880
- Whitesnout guitarfish, Rhinobatos leucorhynchus (Günther, 1867)
- Grayspottted guitarfish, Rhinobatos leucospilus Norman, 1926
- Smoothback guitarfish, Rhinobatos lionotus Norman, 1926
- Smalleyed guitarfish, Rhinobatos microphthalmus Teng, 1959
- Rhinobatos nudidorsalis Last, Compagno & Nakaya, 2004[4]
- Widenose guitarfish, Rhinobatos obtusus Müller & Henle, 1841
- Rhinobatos ocellatus Norman, 1926
- Rhinobatos penggali Last, White & Fahmi, 2006[5]
- Chola guitarfish, Rhinobatos percellens (Walbaum, 1792)
- Madagascar guitarfish, Rhinobatos petiti Chabanaud, 1929
- Pacific guitarfish, Rhinobatos planiceps Garman, 1880
- Gorgona guitarfish, Rhinobatos prahli Acero P. & Franke, 1995
- Shovelnose guitarfish, Rhinobatos productus (Ayres, 1854)
- Spotted guitarfish, Rhinobatos punctifer Compagno & Randall, 1987
- Common guitarfish, Rhinobatos rhinobatos (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Salalah guitarfish, Rhinobatos salalah Randall & Compagno, 1995
- Yellow guitarfish, Rhinobatos schlegelii Müller & Henle, 1841
- Spiny guitarfish, Rhinobatos spinosus Günther, 1870
- Clubnose guitarfish, Rhinobatos thouin (Anonymous, 1798)
- Giant shovelnose ray, Rhinobatos typus Anonymous [Bennett], 1830
- Stripenose guitarfish, Rhinobatos variegatus Nair & Lal Mohan, 1973
- Zanzibar guitarfish, Rhinobatos zanzibarensis Norman, 1926
- Genus Tarsistes
- Tarsistes philippii Jordan, 1919
- Genus Trygonorrhina
- Southern fiddler, Trygonorrhina fasciata (Müller & Henle, 1841)
- Magpie fiddler ray, Trygonorrhina melaleuca Scott, 1954
- Genus Zapteryx
- Lesser guitarfish, Zapteryx brevirostris (Müller & Henle, 1841)
- Banded guitarfish, Zapteryx exasperata (Jordan & Gilbert, 1880)
- Zapteryx xyster Jordan & Evermann, 1896
References
Wikispecies has information related to Rhinobatidae.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Rhinobatidae". FishBase. January 2009 version.
- ^ Stevens, J. & Last, P.R. (1998). Paxton, J.R. & Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Fishes. San Diego: Academic Press. p. 66. ISBN 0-12-547665-5.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Last, White & Fahmi 2006 (2006). "Rhinobatos jimbaranensis and R. penggali, two new shovelnose rays (Batoidea: Rhinobatidae) from eastern Indonesia". Cybium. 30 (3): 262ff.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Peter R. Last, Leonard J.V. Compagno and Kazuhiro Nakaya (2004). "Rhinobatos nudidorsalis, a new species of shovelnose ray (Batoidea: Rhinobatidae) from the Mascarene Ridge, central Indian Ocean". Ichthyological Research. 51 (2): 153–158. doi:10.1007/s10228-004-0211-0.
- ^ Last, White & Fahmi 2006 (2006). "Rhinobatos jimbaranensis and R. penggali, two new shovelnose rays (Batoidea: Rhinobatidae) from eastern Indonesia". Cybium. 30 (3): 262ff.
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