Acroteriobatus salalah

Taxonavigation: Rhinopristiformes

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Classis: Chondrichthyes Subclassis: Elasmobranchii Infraclassis: Euselachii Division/Cohort: Neoselachii Subdivision/Subcohort: Batoidea Superordo: Batomorphii Ordo: Rhinopristiformes

Familia: Rhinobatidae
Subfamilia: Rhinobatinae
Genus: Acroteriobatus
Species: Acroteriobatus salalah

Name

Acroteriobatus salalah (Randall & Compagno, 1995)

• Holotype (unique): BPBM 36358.

Type locality: Salalah fish market, Oman, Arabian Sea.

Etymology: Salalah = city in southern Oman where only specimen was obtained at a fish market. (From: The ETYFish project)

Synonyms

• Rhinobatos salalah Randall & Compagno, 1995

Vernacular names

• English: Salalah Guitarfish

References

• Randall, J.E. & Compagno, L. 1995. A review of the guitarfishes of the genus Rhinobatos (Rajiformes: Rhinobatidae) from Oman, with description of a new species. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 43(2): 289–298. PDF. Reference page. 

Links

• Acroteriobatus salalah in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2026. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Acroteriobatus salalah in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2026. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

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