Golden cownose ray

Golden cownose ray

Taxobox
name = Golden cownose ray


status = NT | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
ordo = Rajiformes
familia = Rhinopteridae
genus = "Rhinoptera"
species = "R. steindachneri"
binomial = "Rhinoptera steindachneri"
binomial_authority = Evermann & Jenkins, 1891
synonyms = The golden cownose ray, hawkray, or pacific cownose ray ("Rhinoptera steindachneri") is a species of fish in the Rhinopteridae family. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Peru. Its natural habitats are open seas, shallow seas, subtidal aquatic beds, estuarine waters, intertidal marshes, and coastal saline lagoons.

ource

* Smith, W.D. & Bizzarro, J.J. 2005. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/60130/all Rhinoptera steindachneri] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 03 August 2007.

External links

* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/06/24/earay124.xml Photos of mass migration]


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