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Whitespotted Guitarfish

Rhynchobatus australiae

Critically endangered

Whitespotted Guitarfish
Pasquale Paolo Cardo from Finale Ligure (Savona), Italy · CC BY 2.0

Overview

Rhynchobatus australiae, also called the white-spotted guitarfish, white-spotted wedgefish or bottlenose wedgefish, is a species of fish in the Rhinidae family. It is found from shallow waters to a depth of at least 60 m (200 ft) in the Indo-Pacific, ranging from the East African coast and the Red Sea, to Taiwan, the Philippines and Australia. It is part of a species complex that also includes the giant guitarfish, the broadnose wedgefish and possibly the smoothnose wedgefish.

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  1. Wikipedia (EN): Rhynchobatus australiae — CC BY-SA 4.0