Rhynchobatus

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
Subfamilia: Rhynchobatinae
Genus: Rhynchobatus
Species: R. australiae – R. cooki – R. djiddensis – R. immaculatus – R. laevis – R. luebberti – R. palpebratus – R. springeri

Name

Rhynchobatus Müller & Henle, 1837

Type species: Rhinobatus laevis Bloch & Schneider, 1801

Etymology: rhynchos (= snout), referring to pointed snout; batis (= Greek for a flat fish), usually applied to a skate or ray. (From: The ETYFish project)

Synonyms

Rhynchobatis [misspelling]

References

Last, P.R., Kyne, P.M. & Compagno, L.J.V. 2016. A new species of wedgefish Rhynchobatus cooki (Rhinopristiformes, Rhinidae) from the Indo–West Pacific. Zootaxa 4139(2): 233–247. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4139.2.7. 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.
Müller, J. & Henle, F. G. J.; 1837: Über die Gattungen der Haifische und Rochen nach einer ... mit Hrn. Henle unternommenen gemeinschaftlichen Arbeit über die Naturgeschichte der Knorpelfische. Bericht Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1837: 111–118.