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Glaucostegidae
Widenose guitarfish
Glaucostegus obtusus
A broad snout ploughs through coastal soft bottoms
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Indian Ocean
- Africa
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Elongated
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Elongated
LargeWidenose guitarfish is known around Northern Indian Ocean as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and records give a maximum length of 93 cm.
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Shovelnose Rays
- Family
- Glaucostegidae
- Genus
- Glaucostegus
- Maximum length
- 93 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Northern Indian Ocean: Pakistan to Thailand, with eastern limits unclear (Ref. 114953 ). South African records refer to Rhinobatos blochii and Rhinobatos leucospilus (Compagno pers. comm.).
- Conservation status
- CRCritically Endangered
Class
Family
Conservation status
