Guitarfish
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Shovelnose guitarfish, Rhinobatos productus
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The guitarfishes are a family, Rhinobatidae, of rays.
Notable species include the Shovelnose guitarfish, Rhinobatos productus, and the Bowmouth guitarfish, Rhina ancylostoma.
[edit] Classification
The taxonomy of this group is highly uncertain. Some taxonomists put Rhinobatidae in its own order, Rhinobatiformes; others place it in the order Myliobatiformes with the eagle rays and their relatives.
In some classifications the family is split into three, with the genus Rhina in the family Rhinidae, and the genus Rhynchobatus in the family Rhynochobatidae (or these two genera may be classified together). These families may be raised to the level of orders: Rhiniformes and Rhynchobatiformes, respectively.
This article follows FishBase in including about fifty species in ten genera:[1]
- Genus Aptychotrema
- Genus Platyrhina
- Genus Platyrhinoidis
- Thornback guitarfish, Platyrhinoidis triseriata (Jordan & Gilbert, 1880).
- Genus Rhina
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.[2]
- Widenose guitarfish, Rhinobatos obtusus Müller & Henle, 1841.
- Rhinobatos ocellatus Norman, 1926.
- 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 Rhynchobatus
- Genus Tarsistes
- Tarsistes philippii Jordan, 1919.
- Genus Trygonorrhina
- Genus Zanobatus
- Genus Zapteryx
[edit] References
- ^ "Rhinobatidae". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. August 2005 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2005.
- ^ 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.