Whitespotted Guitarfish
Rhynchobatus australiae
- Critically endangered
- Card rarity: Legendary
- Sharks and rays
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.
Classification
- Class
- Chondrichthyes
- Order
- Rhinopristiformes
- Family
- Rhinidae
- Genus
- Rhynchobatus