Family Rhinidae - Wedgefishes
  Order
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Rhinidae
  Class
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Elasmobranchii
No. in FishBase
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Genera : 3 | Species : 11 Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes
  Environment
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Fresh : No | Brackish : Yes | Marine : Yes
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Distribution: Indo-Pacific and Atlantic Ocean (1-2 spp). Primarily marine with one Rhina in freshwater. Mostly found in warm temperate to tropical inshore continental seas and rarely deeper than 400 m.

Habitat: Strong swimmers and bottom-dwellers that rest rather than burrow on muddy or sandy bottoms.

Diet: Feed on benthic invertebrates amd small bottom-dwelling fishes.

Use: Sought after for their meat and highly valued large fins that has led to overfishing and population decline in some areas. Popular in public aquaria. Caught mainly as bycatch by trawls, gill and tangle nets and longlines.

Morphology: Wedgefishes are shark-like rays, the size of which is medium to large (0.7-3.1 m TL as adults and weigh at least 227 kg). It has a variably depressed trunk, weakly formed disc, a head either thickened and broadly domed, or flattened wedge-shaped or rounded; pectoral fins are triangular and joined with the body behind eye level; long and narrow nostrils, usually lie oblique to a small horizontal mouth with rounded oval teeth that lack distinct cusps; anterior nasal flaps poorly developed and do not form a nasal curtain; spiracles large with 0-3 skin folds along the hind margin; robust tail slightly longer than the disc; upright dorsal fins 2, first above the pelvic fins; a well-developed bilobed caudal fin with strongly concave posterior margin; pelvic fins moderately sized, angular and not divided inlto 2 lobes; skin with minute denticles and there is a variably developed series of thorns alon ghte dorsal mid-line, and usually 2-3 short serires on each shoulder; dorsal surface mainly yellowish to greyish brown and white ventrally; often with rows of white spots and ocelli, and often with a black blotch on each pectoral fin (pectoral marking) that is variably surrounded by white spots (generally obvious in young); undersurface of the snout can have a blackish marking.

Genera: Rhina, Rhynchobatus, Rhynchorhina.

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Species/Synonymy list for the family Rhinidae as currently in FishBase

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Scientifc name Status Senior/Junior synonym Combination
Rhina ancylostomus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
acceptedseniororiginal
! Rhina anclyostoma Bloch & Schneider, 1801
synonymseniororiginal
! Rhina ancylostoma Bloch & Schneider, 1801
synonymseniororiginal
! Squatina ancyclostoma (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
synonymseniornew
Rhina cyclostomus Swainson, 1839
synonymjuniororiginal
Rhynchobatus laevis (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
acceptedseniornew
Rhinobatus laevis Bloch & Schneider, 1801
synonymseniororiginal
ambiguousquestionableoriginal
Rhynchobatus djiddensis (Forsskål, 1775)
acceptedseniornew
Raja djiddensis Forsskål, 1775
synonymseniororiginal
Rhinobatus djiddensis (Forsskål, 1775)
synonymseniornew
! Rhinchobatus djiddensis (Forsskål, 1775)
synonymseniornew
! Rhynchobatis djiddensis (Forsskål, 1775)
synonymseniornew
! Rhynchobatus djeddensis (Forsskål, 1775)
synonymseniornew
! Rhynchobatus djiddenis (Forsskål, 1775)
synonymseniornew
! Rhynchobatus djidensis (Forsskål, 1775)
synonymseniornew
! Rhyncobatis djeddensis (Forsskål, 1775)
synonymseniornew
! Rhyncobatus djeddensis (Forsskål, 1775)
synonymseniornew
! Rhyncobatus djiddensis (Forsskål, 1775)
synonymseniornew
Rhinobatus maculata Ehrenberg, 1829
synonymjuniororiginal
Rhynchobatus luebberti Ehrenbaum, 1915
acceptedseniororiginal
! Rhynchobatus lubberti Ehrenbaum, 1915
synonymseniororiginal
! Rhynchobatus lubertii Ehrenbaum, 1915
synonymseniororiginal
synonymjuniororiginal
Rhynchobatus djiddensis (non Forsskål, 1775)
misappliedmisappliednew
acceptedseniorchange in rank
synonymseniororiginal
Rhynchobatus palpebratus Compagno & Last, 2008
acceptedseniororiginal
Rhynchobatus springeri Compagno & Last, 2010
acceptedseniororiginal
Rhynchobatus sp. 2 Not applicable
synonymotherother
! Rhynchobatus immaculatus Last, ho & Chen, 2013
provisionally acceptedseniororiginal
Rhynchobatus cooki Last, Kyne & Compagno, 2016
acceptedsenior sy nonymoriginal
Rhynchobatus sp. 1 Not applicable
synonymotherother
! Rhynchobatus compagnoi Last & Kyne, 2016
synonymseniorother
Rhynchobatus mononoke Koeda, Itou, Yamada & Motomura, 2020
acceptedseniororiginal
Rhynchorhina mauritaniensis Séret & Naylor, 2016
acceptedseniororiginal
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