Animalia > Chordata > Elasmobranchii > Rhinopristiformes > Rhinidae > Rhynchobatus > Rhynchobatus djiddensis

Rhynchobatus djiddensis (White-spotted wedgefish; Whitespotted wedgefish; White-spotted shovelnose ray; White-spotted shovelnose; White-spotted guitarfish; Whitespot giant guitarfish; White spotted shovelnose ray; White spotted shovelnose guitarfish; Spotted guitarfish; Shovelnose; Shovel nose; Shark-ray; Sandy; Sand shark; Plough fish; Guitar fish; Giant sandshark; Giant guitarfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The giant guitarfish (Rhynchobatus djiddensis) is a species of guitarfish in the family Rhynchobatidae.
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Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site   Queensland, Australia

Prey / Diet

Acetes indicus (jawla paste shrimp)[1]
Palaemon styliferus (roshma prawn)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Trophic organisation and predator-prey interactions among commercially exploited demersal finfishes in the coastal waters of the southeastern Arabian Sea, K.P. Abdurahiman, T.H. Nayak, P.U. Zacharia, K.S. Mohamed, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 87 (2010) 601-610
♦ 2Jorrit 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.
♦ 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;
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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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