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The guitarfish, also referred to as shovelnose rays, are a family, Rhinobatidae, of rays. The guitarfish are known for an elongated body with a flattened head and trunk and small, ray-like wings. The guitarfish are known for an elongated body with a flattened head and trunk and small, ray-like wings.
The shovelnose sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus) [5] is the smallest species of freshwater sturgeon native to North America. It is often called hackleback , sand sturgeon , or switchtail . Switchtail refers to the long filament found on the upper lobe of the caudal fin (often broken off as adults).
The shovelnose guitarfish (Pseudobatos productus) is a ray in the family Rhinobatidae. P. productus was first described by ichthyologist William Orville Ayre in 1854 as Rhinobatos productus , [ 2 ] with the genus derived from the Greek word rhinos, meaning nose, and the Latin word batis, meaning ray. [ 3 ]
Shovelnose may refer to: A type of American Indian canoe; A type of streamlined railway locomotive; A banjo shark This page was last edited on 7 ...
COTW may refer to: Committee of the Whole; In Cuisine or Science. Chicken of the Woods, various species of edible shelf mushrooms in the genus Laetiporus; In ...
The Latin meaning of rostrata is 'beaked', suggesting that the eastern shovelnose ray was named after its triangular snout. [7] The eastern shovelnose ray is an elasmobranch, a subclass of cartilaginous fish including sharks, rays, skates and sawfish — the modern descendants of the first jawed vertebrates. [11]
The Amu Darya sturgeon feeds on small fish and aquatic insect larvae, with large individuals being mostly piscivorous. [1] [5]Studies in the 1960s and 1970s showed that Amu Darya sturgeon reach maturity when 5–8 years old (slightly later in females than males), but in the 1990s the youngest mature individuals only were 4 years old, possibly due to environmental changes in their habitat. [7]
The western shovelnose stingaree (Trygonoptera mucosa) is a common species of stingray in the family Urolophidae, inhabiting shallow sandy flats and seagrass beds off southwestern Australia from Perth to Gulf St Vincent. Growing to 37 cm (15 in) long, this small ray has a rounded pectoral fin disc and a blunt, broadly triangular snout. Its ...