Rhinobatos
Rhinobatos is a genus of fish in the Rhinobatidae family. It contains the following species:
- Rhinobatos albomaculatus Norman, 1930 (White-spotted guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos annandalei Norman, 1926 (Annandale's guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos annulatus J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841 (Lesser sandshark)
- Rhinobatos blochii J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841 (Bluntnose guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos cemiculus É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817 (Blackchin guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos formosensis Norman, 1926 (Taiwan guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos glaucostigma D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1883 (Speckled guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos holcorhynchus Norman, 1922 (Slender guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos horkelii J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841 (Brazilian guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos hynnicephalus J. Richardson, 1846 (Ringstreaked guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos irvinei Norman, 1931 (Spineback guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos jimbaranensis Last, W. T. White & Fahmi, 2006 (Jimbaran shovelnose ray)[2]
- Rhinobatos lentiginosus Garman, 1880 (Atlantic guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos leucorhynchus Günther, 1867 (Whitesnout guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos leucospilus Norman, 1926 (Grayspottted guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos lionotus Norman, 1926 (Smoothback guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos microphthalmus Teng, 1959 (Smalleyed guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos nudidorsalis Last, Compagno & Nakaya, 2004 (Bareback shovelnose ray)[3]
- Rhinobatos obtusus J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841 (Widenose guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos ocellatus Norman, 1926 (Speckled guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos penggali Last, W. T. White & Fahmi, 2006 (Indonesian shovelnose ray)[2]
- Rhinobatos percellens (Walbaum, 1792) (Chola guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos petiti Chabanaud, 1929 (Madagascar guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos planiceps Garman, 1880 (Pacific guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos prahli Acero P & Franke, 1995 (Gorgona guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos productus Ayres, 1854 (Shovelnose guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos punctifer Compagno & Randall, 1987 (Spotted guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos rhinobatos (Linnaeus, 1758) (Common guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos sainsburyi Last, 2004 (Goldeneye shovelnose ray)
- Rhinobatos salalah Randall & Compagno, 1995 (Salalah guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos schlegelii J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841 (Brown guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos spinosus Günther, 1870 (Spiny guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos thouin (Anonymous, referred to Lacépède, 1798) (Clubnose guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos thouiniana (G. Shaw, 1804) (Shaw's shovelnose guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos variegatus Nair & Lal Mohan, 1973 (Stripenose guitarfish)
- Rhinobatos zanzibarensis Norman, 1926 (Zanzibar guitarfish)
Guitarfish catch their prey using a suction technique. The relative sequence of muscle activity is shared across the Rhinobatos genus, but varies with timing and duration of muscular activation.[4]
See also
References
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Chondrichthyes entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: p.560. http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=575&rank=class. Retrieved 2008-01-09.
- ^ a b Last, White & Fahmi 2006 (2006). "Rhinobatos jimbaranensis and R. penggali, two new shovelnose rays (Batoidea: Rhinobatidae) from eastern Indonesia". Cybium 30 (3): 262ff..
- ^ 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.
- ^ Wilga CD, Motta PJ. Feeding mechanism of the Atlantic guitarfish Rhinobatos lentiginosus: Modulation of kinematic and motor activity. Journal of Experimental Biology Volume 201, Issue 23 pp 3167-3184