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Rhinobatidae
Smoothback guitarfish
Rhinobatos lionotus
Cloud spots patterned on disc
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Indian Ocean
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Indian Ocean
LargeSmoothback guitarfish is known from Indian Ocean as a fish. It occurs in estuaries and brackish water.
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Shovelnose Rays
- Family
- Rhinobatidae
- Genus
- Rhinobatos
- Maximum length
- 75 cm
- Distribution
- Indian Ocean: West Bengal to Myanmar, upper Bay of Bengal (India) to possibly Arabian Sea; Sri Lanka (Ref. 114953 ).
- Conservation status
- CRCritically Endangered
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Order
Family
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