Rhynchobatus australiae

Rhynchobatus australiae

Taxonavigation: Rhinopristiformes

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

Familia: Rhinobatidae
Subfamilia: Rhynchobatinae
Genus: Rhynchobatus
Species: Rhynchobatus australiae

Name

Rhynchobatus australiae Whitley, 1939

• Holotype (unique): AMS IA.4959.

Type locality: Off Manning River mouth, New South Wales, Australia. Holotype (unique): AMS IA.4959.

Etymology: of Australia (name originally proposed as an Australian subspecies of R. djiddensis). (From: The ETYFishproject)

Synonyms

• Rhynchobatus djiddensis australiae Whitley, 1939

Vernacular names

English: Whitespotted Wedgefish

References

• Last, P.R., Séret, B. & Naylor, G.J.P. 2016. A new species of guitarfish, Rhinobatos borneensis sp. nov. with a redefinition of the family-level classification in the order Rhinopristiformes (Chondrichthyes: Batoidea). Zootaxa 4117(4): 451–475. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4117.4.1. Reference page. 
• Whitley, G.P. 1939. Taxonomic notes on sharks and rays. Australian Zoologist 9(3): 227–262, fig. 18, pl. 20–22. BHL Reference page. 

Links

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

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