Rhinobatos

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
Genus: Rhinobatos
Species: R. albomaculatus – R. annandalei – R. austini – R. borneensis – R. holcorhynchus – R. hynnicephalus – R. irvinei – R. jimbaranensis – R. lionotus – R. manai – R. nudidorsalis – R. penggali – R. punctifer – R. ranongensis – R. rhinobatos – R. sainsburyi – R. schlegelii – R. whitei

Name

Rhinobatos Linck, 1790

Type species: Raja rhinobatos Linnaeus, 1758

Etymology: presumably tautonymous with Raja rhinobatos (no species mentioned); rhine (= rasp), a generic term for shark, referring to a shark’s rough skin; batis (= Greek for a flat fish, usually applied to a skate or ray), referring to body form being intermediate between that of a shark and ray The ETYFish Project

Synonyms

Leiobatus Rafinesque, 1810
Platipornax (subgenus of Rhinobatos) Whitley, 1939
Rhinobatus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Scobatus (subgenus of Rhinobatos) Whitley, 1939
Squatinoraja Nardo, 1824
Syrrhina (subgenus of Rhinobatus) Müller & Henle, 1841

References

Primary references

Linck, H.F. 1790. Versuch einer Eintheilung der Fische nach den Zähnen. Magazin für das Neueste aus der Physik und Naturgeschichte Gotha 6(3): 28–38. Google Books . Reference page.

Additional references

Aitchison, R.M., Ebert, D.A., Séret, B. & Weigmann, S. 2024. Review of three southwestern Indian Ocean species of Rhinobatos (Rhinopristiformes: Rhinobatidae). Endangered Species Research 53: 67–87. DOI: 10.3354/esr01286 Reference page.
Ebert, D.A. & Gon, O. 2017. Rhinobatos austini n. sp., a new species of guitarfish (Rhinopristiformes: Rhinobatidae) from the Southwestern Indian Ocean. Zootaxa 4276(2): 204–214. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4276.2.3. 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.
Last, P.R., Séret, B. & Naylor, G.J.P. 2019. Description of Rhinobatos ranongensis sp. nov. (Rhinopristiformes: Rhinobatidae) from the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal with a review of its northern Indian Ocean congeners. Zootaxa 4576(2): 257–287. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.2.3 Reference page.
White, W.T., Last, P.R. & Naylor, G.J.P. 2016. Rhinobatos manai sp. nov., a new species of guitarfish (Rhinopristiformes: Rhinobatidae) from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa 4175(6): 588–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.6.6. Reference page.

Vernacular names

Ελληνικά: Ρινόβατος
日本語: サカタザメ属

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