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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 ]
Guitarfish have a body form intermediate between those of sharks and rays. The tail has a typical shark-like form, but in many species, the head has a triangular, or guitar-like shape, rather than the disc-shape formed by fusion with the pectoral fins found in other rays.
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] This subclass are generally apex predators and therefore occupy the highest trophic level in their ecosystems, meaning they are at the top of the food-chain.
The bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo), also called a bonnet shark or shovelhead, [3] is a small member of the hammerhead shark genus Sphyrna, and part of the family Sphyrnidae.It is an abundant species in the littoral zone of the North Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, is the only shark species known to display sexual dimorphism in the morphology of the head, and is the only shark species known to be ...
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Rhinopristiformes / r aɪ n oʊ ˈ p r ɪ s t ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / is an order of rays, cartilaginous fishes related to sharks, containing shovelnose rays and allied ...
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