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Guitarfish

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Shovelnose guitarfish, Rhinobatos productus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Rajiformes
Family: Rhinobatidae
Müller & Henle, 1837
Genera

Aptychotrema
Platyrhina
Platyrhinoidis
Rhina
Rhinobatos
Rhynchobatus
Tarsistes
Trygonorrhina
Zanobatus
Zapteryx
See text for species.

The guitarfishes are a family, Rhinobatidae, of rays.

Notable species include the Shovelnose guitarfish, Rhinobatos productus, and the Bowmouth guitarfish, Rhina ancylostoma.

[edit] Classification

The taxonomy of this group is highly uncertain. Some taxonomists put Rhinobatidae in its own order, Rhinobatiformes; others place it in the order Myliobatiformes with the eagle rays and their relatives.

In some classifications the family is split into three, with the genus Rhina in the family Rhinidae, and the genus Rhynchobatus in the family Rhynochobatidae (or these two genera may be classified together). These families may be raised to the level of orders: Rhiniformes and Rhynchobatiformes, respectively.

This article follows FishBase in including about fifty species in ten genera:<ref>"Rhinobatidae". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. August 2005 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2005.</ref>

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[edit] Further Reading

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