Genus Rhynchobatus Müller & Henle, 1837

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External Links

• Rhynchobatus Müller, J. & Henle, F.G.J. 1837. Gattungen der Haifische und Rochen, nach ihrer Arbeit: "Ueber die Naturgeschichte der Knorpelfische". Bericht der Königlisch Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1836: 111-118 [116].

  Type species:

   Rhinobatus laevis Bloch & Schneider, 1801 by monotypy (= Raja djiddensis Forsskål, 1775).

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

RHINIDAE: Rhynchobatus djiddensis (Forsskål, 1775) — Compagno, L.J.V. & Last, P.R. 1999. Families Pristidae, Rhinidae, Rhinobatidae, Platyrhinidae. pp. 1410-1432 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 3 pp. 1397-2068. [1421] (restricted to western Indian Ocean)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

East Atlantic-Indo-west Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

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

 

History of changes

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