Animalia > Chordata > Elasmobranchii > Torpediniformes > Platyrhinidae > Platyrhina > Platyrhina sinensis

Platyrhina sinensis (Thornback ray; Fanray)

Synonyms: Platyrhina limboonkengi; Platyrhina limboonkenkengi; Rhina sinensis
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Wikipedia Abstract

The fanray (Platyrhina sinensis) is a species of ray in the family Platyrhinidae.This species is locally common off the coasts of China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, and possibly Indonesia. It grows to a maximum known length of 68 cm, but most are 30–50 cm and weigh 200-500 g. The coloration is brown above and white below. The flesh is edible but this species is not targeted by fisheries. The fanray is the most abundant elasmobranch species in Ariake Bay, Kyūshū; it is caught as bycatch in gillnets and trawls and discarded, but its population has not been negatively affected by these activities.
View Wikipedia Record: Platyrhina sinensis

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Platyrhina sinensis

Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Biotobothrium platyrhina[2]
Echinobothrium sinensis[2]
Merizocotyle sinensis[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
2Pollerspöck, 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;
3Gibson, 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