Species Rhinobatos sainsburyi Last, 2004

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• Rhinobatos sainsburyi Last, P.R. 2004. Rhinobatos sainsburyi n.sp. and Aptychotrema timorensis n.sp. —Two New Shovelnose Rays (Batoidea: Rhinobatidae) from the Eastern Indian Ocean. Records of the Australian Museum 56: 201-208 [205, figs 3-4].

  Type data:

   Holotype CSIRO H.4041-04, north-east of Cape Lambert, WA [19°29'S, 117°35'E].
  Paratype(s) CSIRO CA.1129; CSIRO CA.3901; CSIRO H.743-01; CSIRO H.757-01; CSIRO H.1048-01; CSIRO H.1050-03; CSIRO H.1058-02; CSIRO H.1090-01; CSIRO H.1091-01; CSIRO H.1091-03; CSIRO H.1091-04; CSIRO CA.1253.

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Rhinobatos sp. A. —
  Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 1994. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Canberra : CSIRO Australia 513 pp. 84 pls. [284]
• Rhinobatos sp. 2. —
  Sainsbury, K.J., Kailola, P.J. & Leyland, G.G. 1984. Continental Shelf Fishes of Northern and North-Western Australia. Canberra : Fisheries Information Service 375 pp. figs & pls. [44]
• Rhinobatos sp. 1. —
  Sainsbury, K.J., Kailola, P.J. & Leyland, G.G. 1984. Continental Shelf Fishes of Northern and North-Western Australia. Canberra : Fisheries Information Service 375 pp. figs & pls. [44]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Monte Bello Islands, WA to north-west of Melville Island, NT; tropical, also Papua New Guinea

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

66–200 m.

 

General References

Gloerfelt-Tarp, T. & Kailola, P.J. 1984. Trawled Fishes of Southern Indonesia and Northwest Australia. Jakarta : Dir. Gen. Fish. (Indonesia), German Tech. Coop., Aust. Dev. Ass. Bur. 406 pp. [29] (as Rhinobatos sp. 1 and p. 30 as Rhinobatos sp. 4)

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 1994. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Canberra : CSIRO Australia 513 pp. 84 pls. [284] (as Rhinobatos sp. A)

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 2009. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Australia 2, 550 pp. [312]

Sainsbury, K.J., Kailola, P.J. & Leyland, G.G. 1984. Continental Shelf Fishes of Northern and North-Western Australia. Canberra : Fisheries Information Service 375 pp. figs & pls. [44] (as Rhinobatos sp. 1 and Rhinobatos sp. 2)

Séret, B., Last, P.R. & Naylor, G.J.P. 2016. Guitarfishes. Family Rhinobatidae. pp. 77-109 in Last, P.R., White, W.T., Carvalho, M.R. de, Séret, B., Stehmann, M.F.W. & Naylor, G.J.P. (eds.). Rays of the World. Clayton South, Victoria : CSIRO Publishing 790 pp. [107]

 

Common Name References

Sainsbury, K.J., Kailola, P.J. & Leyland, G.G. 1984. Continental Shelf Fishes of Northern and North-Western Australia. Canberra : Fisheries Information Service 375 pp. figs & pls. [44] (Golden-eyed Shovelnose-Ray, Plain Shovelnose-Ray)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Jun-2024	ELASMOBRANCHII	17-Apr-2024	MODIFIED
16-Apr-2012		16-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
10-Mar-2010		23-Mar-2010	MODIFIED
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