Trygonorrhinidae

Trygonorrhinidae

Eastern fiddler ray (Trygonorrhina fasciata)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Rhinopristiformes
Family:	Trygonorrhinidae Last, Séret & Naylor, 2016
Genera
Aptychotrema Trygonorrhina Zapteryx

Trygonorrhinidae, the banjo rays, is a family of rays, comprising eight species in three genera. They were formerly classified in the family Rhinobatidae.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Taxonomy

Aptychotrema Norman, 1926
- Aptychotrema rostrata Shaw, 1794 (Eastern shovelnose ray)
- Aptychotrema timorensis Last, 2004 (Spotted shovelnose ray)
- Aptychotrema vincentiana Haacke, 1885 (Western shovelnose ray)
Trygonorrhina J. P. Müller & Henle, 1838
- Trygonorrhina dumerilii (Castelnau, 1873) (Southern fiddler ray)
- Trygonorrhina fasciata J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841 (Eastern fiddler ray)
Zapteryx D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1880
- Zapteryx brevirostris J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841 (Shortnose guitarfish)
- Zapteryx exasperata D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1880 (Banded guitarfish)
- Zapteryx xyster D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1896 (Southern banded guitarfish)

References

↑ Last; White; de Carvalho; Séret; Stehmann; and Naylor, eds. (2016). Rays of the World. CSIRO. pp. 117–126. ISBN 9780643109148.
↑ Naylor, G.J.P., Caira, J.N., Jensen, K., Rosana, K.A.M., Straube, N. & Lakner, C. (2012). Carrier, J.C., Musick, J.A. & Heithaus, M.R., ed. Elasmobranch Phylogeny: A Mitochondrial Estimate Based on 595 Species. Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives (2 ed.). CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. pp. 31–56.
↑ Last, P.R., Séret, B. & Naylor, G.J.P. (2016). "A new species of guitarfish, Rhinobatos borneensis sp. nov. with a redefinition of the family-level classification in the order Rhinopristiformes (Chondrichthyes: Batoidea)". Zootaxa. 4117 (4): 451–475. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4117.4.1.

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