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Zapteryx exasperata (Striped guitarfish; Prickly skate; Mottled guitarfish; Guitarfish; Banded guitarfish)

Synonyms: Platyrhina exasperata; Trigonorhina alveata
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Wikipedia Abstract

The banded guitarfish, mottled guitarfish, prickly skate, or striped guitarfish (Zapteryx exasperata) is a species of fish in the Rhinobatidae family found in Mexico and the United States, and possibly Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, and Peru. Its natural habitats are shallow seas, subtidal aquatic beds, and coastal saline lagoons.
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Prey / Diet

Engraulis mordax (Californian anchoveta)[1]
Lolliguncula diomedeae (dart squid)[1]
Ophidion galeoides (Striped cusk eel)[1]
Porichthys margaritatus (Pearlspot midshipman)[1]
Scomber japonicus (Striped mackerel)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Anaporrhutum euzeti[2]
Pseudochristianella nudiscula[3]
Pterobothrioides carvajali[3]
Spinuris zapterygis[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Feeding ecology and trophic level of the banded guitarfish, Zapteryx exasperata, inferred from stable isotopes and stomach contents analysis, María-del-Pilar Blanco-Parra, Felipe Galván-Magaña, J. Fernando Márquez-Farías, Carlos Alberto Niño-Torres, Environmental Biology of Fishes, September 2012, Volume 95, Issue 1, pp 65-77
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 3Pollerspöck, J. & Straube, N. (2015), Bibliography database of living/fossil sharks, rays and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali) -Host-Parasites List/Parasite-Hosts List-, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 04/2015;
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0