Pseudobatos planiceps

Taxonavigation: Rhinopristiformes

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Classis: Chondrichthyes Subclassis: Elasmobranchii Infraclassis: Euselachii Division/Cohort: Neoselachii Subdivision/Subcohort: Batoidea Superordo: Batomorphii Ordo: Rhinopristiformes

Familia: Rhinobatidae
Genus: Pseudobatos

Species: Pseudobatos planiceps

Name

Pseudobatos planiceps (Garman, 1880)

• Syntypes: (21) MCZ 377-S (6, now 5), 378-S (11), 537-S (1), 538-S (1), 633-S (1, skeleton).

Type locality: Paita and Callao, Peru; Galápagos Islands.

Etymology: planus (= flat); –ceps (= head), referring to broad, flat head. (From: The ETYFish Project)

Synonyms

• Rhinobatus planiceps Garman, 1880
  • Rhinobatos planiceps Garman, 1880

Vernacular names

English: Pacific Guitarfish

References

• Garman, S. 1880. New species of selachians in the museum collection. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 6(11): 167–172. BHL Reference page. 
• 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. Reference page. 

Links

• Pseudobatos planiceps in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Pseudobatos planiceps in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.