Taxonavigation

Familia: Rhinobatidae
Genus: Rhinobatos
Species: R. albomaculatus – R. annandalei – R. austini – R. borneensis – R. holcorhynchus – R. hynnicephalus – R. irvinei – R. jimbaranensis – R. lionotus – R. manai – R. nudidorsalis – R. penggali – R. punctifer – R. rhinobatos – R. sainsburyi – R. schlegelii – R. whitei

Name

Rhinobatos Linck, 1790

• Type species: Raja rhinobatos Linnaeus, 1758

Etymology: presumably tautonymous with Raja rhinobatos (no species mentioned); rhine (= rasp), a generic term for shark, referring to a shark’s rough skin; batis (= Greek for a flat fish, usually applied to a skate or ray), referring to body form being intermediate between that of a shark and ray The ETYFish Project

References

• Ebert, D.A. & Gon, O. 2017. Rhinobatos austini n. sp., a new species of guitarfish (Rhinopristiformes: Rhinobatidae) from the Southwestern Indian Ocean. Zootaxa 4276(2): 204–214. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4276.2.3. Reference page. 

• Last, P.R., Séret, B. & Naylor, G.J.P. 2016. A new species of guitarfish, Rhinobatos borneensis sp. nov. with a redefinition of the family-level classification in the order Rhinopristiformes (Chondrichthyes: Batoidea). Zootaxa 4117(4): 451–475. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4117.4.1. Reference page. 
• Linck, H. F., 1790: Versuch einer Eintheilung der Fische nach den Zähnen. Magazin für das Neueste aus der Physik und Naturgeschichte, Gotha 6 (3) (art. 3): 28–38.

• White, W.T., Last, P.R. & Naylor, G.J.P. 2016. Rhinobatos manai sp. nov., a new species of guitarfish (Rhinopristiformes: Rhinobatidae) from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa 4175(6): 588–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.6.6. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

For more multimedia, look at Rhinobatos on Wikimedia Commons.