Rhynchobatus djiddensis

Rhynchobatus djiddensis

Taxonavigation

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: Rhynchobatus djiddensis

Name

• Rhynchobatus djiddensis (Forsskål, 1775)

Etymology: –ensis, suffix denoting place: Djidda (now Jedda), Saudi Arabia, on Red Sea, putative type locality. (From: The ETYFishproject)

Synonyms

• Raja djiddensis Forsskål, 1775
  • Rhinchobatus djiddensis (Forsskål, 1775) (misspelling)
  • Rhinobatus djiddensis (Forsskål, 1775)
  • Rhynchobatus djeddensis (Forsskål, 1775) (misspelling)
  • Rhynchobatus djiddenis (Forsskål, 1775) (misspelling)
  • Rhynchobatus djidensis (Forsskål, 1775) (misspelling)
  • Rhyncobatis djeddensis (Forsskål, 1775) (misspelling)
  • Rhyncobatus djeddensis (Forsskål, 1775) (misspelling)
  • Rhyncobatus djiddensis (Forsskål, 1775) (misspelling)
  • Rynchobatus djiddensis (Forsskål, 1775) (misspelling)
• Rhinobatus maculata Ehrenberg, 1829
• ?Rhinobates rueppellii Swainson, 1838

Vernacular names

English: Giant guitarfish, Spotted guitarfish
தமிழ்: பல்லுவாய்
ไทย: ปลาโรนันจุดขาว

References

• Forsskål, P. S.; 1775: Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit... Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Hauniae. 1-20 + i-xxxiv + 1-164, map.

• 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

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

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