Rhinidae

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.