Taxonomy of Finfish (1+2)

Rhinobatos granulatus (Cuvier,1829)-

Sharpnose guitarfish

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Chondrichthyes

Subclass : Elasmobranchii

Order Rhinobatiformes

Family : Rhinobatidae- Guitar fishes

Genera : Rhinobatos

Species : R. granulatus

Rhinobatos

• Nostrils diagonal, width much greater than internarial space
• spiracles with a pair of narrow folds on their posterior margins;
• species in the area with a broadly to obtusely angular snout and plain or spotted with small dark and light spots

Rhinobatos granulatus Cuvier, 1829

• Snout long and anteriorly slender, eye length 9 to 14 in preorbital length;
• nostril width about 0.5 of mouth width, 1.0 to 1.2 times internarial space;
• spiracle with outer fold weakly developed and inner fold rudimentary or absent on posterior margins