Clubnose guitarfish

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Clubnose guitarfish
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Rajiformes
Family: Rhinobatidae
Genus: Rhinobatos
Species: R. thouin
Binomial name
Rhinobatos thouin
(Anonymous, 1798)

The clubnose guitarfish (Rhinobatos thouin) is a species of fish in the Rhinobatidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Yemen, and possibly Suriname. Its natural habitats are open seas and shallow seas.

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