- Rhynchobatus
Taxobox
name = "Rhynchobatus"
fossil_range = Fossil range|56|0 EarlyEocene to Present [cite journal
last = Sepkoski
first = Jack
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Chondrichthyes entry)
journal = Bulletins of American Paleontology
volume = 364
issue =
pages = p.560
publisher =
location =
date = 2002
url = http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=575&rank=class
doi =
id =
accessdate = 2008-01-09 ]
regnum =Animalia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Chondrichthyes
ordo =Rajiformes
familia =Rhynchobatidae
genus = "Rhynchobatus""Rhynchobatus" is a genus of
fish in theRhynchobatidae family. It contains the following species:
*White-spotted guitarfish ("Rhynchobatus australiae")
*Giant guitarfish ("Rhynchobatus djiddensis")
*Smoothnose wedgefish ("Rhynchobatus laevis")
*African wedgefish ("Rhynchobatus luebberti")
*Roughnose wedgefish ("Rhynchobatus sp. nov. A")
*Broadnose wedgefish ("Rhynchobatus sp. nov. B")References
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