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Rhinobatos rhinobatos Common guitarfish

Rhinobatos rhinobatosis commonly referred to as Common guitarfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Geigenrochen (Rhinobatos rhinobatos)

Geigenrochen (Rhinobatos rhinobatos) mit Blauflossenmakrele (Caranx melanpygus) darüber. Rotes Meer


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lexID:
4911 
AphiaID:
105898 
Scientific:
Rhinobatos rhinobatos 
German:
Geigenrochen 
English:
Common Guitarfish 
Category:
Stingrays 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Elasmobranchii (Class) > Rajiformes (Order) > Rhinobatidae (Family) > Rhinobatos (Genus) > rhinobatos (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Linnaeus, ), 1758 
Occurrence:
Straße von Gibralta, Ghana, Benin, West Sahara, Algeria, Angola, Bay of Biscay, Cameroon, Congo, East-Atlantic Ocean, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, European Coasts, Israel, Morocco, Nigeria, São Tomé e Principé, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Ivory Coast, the Mediterranean Sea, Togo, West Africa 
Sea depth:
0 - 100 Meter 
Size:
31.5" - 57.87" (80cm - 147cm) 
Temperature:
68 °F - 82.4 °F (20°C - 28°C) 
Food:
Crabs, Crustaceans, Edible crab, Fish (little fishes), Rock lobster, Rock shrimps, Schrimps, Sepia, Zoobenthos 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for home aquaria! 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Endangered (EN) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
  • Rhinobatos albomaculatus
  • Rhinobatos annandalei
  • Rhinobatos annulatus
    Geigenrochen
  • Rhinobatos blochii
  • Rhinobatos cemiculus
  • Rhinobatos formosensis
  • Rhinobatos holcorhynchus
  • Rhinobatos hynnicephalus
  • Rhinobatos irvinei
  • Rhinobatos jimbaranensis
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2020-03-05 23:31:05 

Info

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Special thanks to Christian Coudre, France, merci.

IUCN Red List: Endangered

Distribution:
Eastern Atlantic: southern Bay of Biscay to Angola, including Mediterranean Sea.

Biology:
Inhabits sandy and muddy bottoms, from the intertidal zone to about 100 m. Sometimes near rocky reefs. Slow swimming over bottom or partially buried. Feeds on benthic invertebrates and fishes.
Ovoviviparous, one or two litters per year with 4-10 embryos.

Synonymised taxa:
Leiobatus panduratus Rafinesque, 1810
Raia columnae Blainville, 1816
Raja rhinobatos Linnaeus, 1758
Rhinobatus columnae Bonaparte, 1836
Rhinobatus duhameli Blainville, 1825
Rhinobatus rhinobatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Squatinoraja colonna Nardo, 1824

Scientific paper

  1. Spermiogenesis and spermatozoon ultrastructure of the diphyllidean cestodeEchinobothrium euterpes(Neifar, Tyler and Euzet 2001) Tyler 2006, a parasite of the common guitarfishRhinobatos rhinobatos, Adji Mama Marigo; Catarina Eira; Cheikh Tidiane Bâ; Jordi Miquel, 2011
  2. Age and growth of the common guitarfish, Rhinobatos rhinobatos, in Iskenderun Bay (north-eastern Mediterranean, Turkey), Başusta, Nuri; Demirhan, Sefa Ayhan; Çiçek, Erdoğan; Başusta, Asiye; Kuleli, Tuncay , 2008
  3. Age, growth, reproductive biology and feed of the common guitarfish (Rhinobatos rhinobatos Linnaeus, 1758) in İskenderun Bay, the eastern Mediterranean Sea, Ali Ismen; Cigdem Yıgın; Pınar Ismen, 2007

External links

  1. Cote bleu Christian Coudre (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  4. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Foto: Israel, Mittelmer
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Geigenrochen (Rhinobatos rhinobatos)
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Geigenrochen (Rhinobatos rhinobatos)
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