Bottlenose wedgefish

Rhynchobatus australiae

Rhinid Fish of the Persian Gulf

Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Indian Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Africa
Oceania
Southeast Asia
Large
Tropical fish

Rhynchobatus australiae, also called the white-spotted guitarfish, white-spotted wedgefish or bottlenose wedgefish, is a species of fish in the Rhinidae family. It is found from shallow waters to a depth of at least 60 m (200 ft) in the Indo-Pacific, ranging from the East African coast and the Red Sea, to Taiwan, the Philippines and Australia. It is part of a species complex that also includes the giant guitarfish, the broadnose wedgefish and possibly the smoothnose wedgefish.

Class: Sharks and Rays
Order: Shovelnose Rays
Family: Rhinidae
Genus: Rhynchobatus
Maximum length: 124 cm
Water: Marine
Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea, Persian Gulf (Ref. 114953 ). Gulf of Thailand and the Philippines to Queensland, Australia. A similar and perhaps identical species occurs in the western Indian Ocean off Mozambique and in the Gulf of Aden and is probably sympatric with the true ' Rhynchobatus djiddensis ' of the western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Distributional range probably wider than reported, but many nominal records of Rhynchobatus djiddensis from the western Pacific and southeastern Indian Ocean cannot be identified to species.
Conservation status: CRCritically Endangered

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