Animalia > Chordata > Elasmobranchii > Rhinopristiformes > Rhinidae > Rhynchobatus > Rhynchobatus australiae

Rhynchobatus australiae (Fiddler; Giant guitarfish; Guitarfish; Sandshark; Shovelnose shark; Whitespot ray; Whitespot shovelnose ray; Whitespotted guitarfish; White-spotted guitarfish; White-spotted shovelnose ray; White-spotted shovelnosed guitarfish; Whitespotted wedgefish)

Synonyms: Rhynchobatus djiddensis australiae
Language: Bahasa Indonesia; Bali; Dutch; German; Japanese; Javanese; Malay; Mandarin Chinese; Thai

Wikipedia Abstract

Rhynchobatus australiae, also called the white-spotted guitarfish or white-spotted wedgefish, is a species of fish in the Rhynchobatidae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are open seas and shallow seas. It is part of a species complex that also includes the giant guitarfish, the broadnose wedgefish and possibly the smoothnose wedgefish.
View Wikipedia Record: Rhynchobatus australiae

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Rhynchobatus australiae

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Dollfusiella ocallaghani[1]
Parachristianella monomegacantha[1]
Stoibocephalum koenneckeorum[1]
Tylocephalum koenneckorum <Unverified Name>[2]

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♦ 1Pollerspöck, 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;
♦ 2Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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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