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Family of cartilaginous fishes

Wedgefishes

Whitespotted wedgefish (Rhynchobatus djiddensis)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Rhinopristiformes
Family:	Rhinidae J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841
Genera
Rhina Rhynchobatus Rhynchorhina

Wedgefishes are rays of the family Rhinidae, comprising eleven species in three genera. Classified in the order Rhinopristiformes along with guitarfishes and sawfishes, they have also been known as giant guitarfishes or sharkfin guitarfishes.

Taxonomy

Rhina Bloch & Schneider, 1801
- Rhina ancylostoma Bloch & Schneider, 1801 (Shark ray)
Rhynchobatus J. P. Müller & Henle, 1837
- Rhynchobatus australiae Whitley, 1939 (Bottlenose wedgefish)
- Rhynchobatus cooki Last, Kyne & Compagno, 2016 (Roughnose wedgefish)
- Rhynchobatus djiddensis (Forsskål, 1775) (Whitespotted wedgefish)
- Rhynchobatus immaculatus Last, H.-C.Ho & R.-R. Chen, 2013 (Taiwanese wedgefish)
- Rhynchobatus laevis (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) (Smoothnose wedgefish)
- Rhynchobatus luebberti Ehrenbaum, 1915 (African wedgefish)
- Rhynchobatus mononoke Koeda, Itou, Yamada & Motomura, 2020 (Japanese wedgefish)
- Rhynchobatus palpebratus Compagno & Last, 2008 (Eyebrow wedgefish)
- Rhynchobatus springeri Compagno & Last, 2010 (Broadnose wedgefish)
Rhynchorhina Séret & Naylor, 2016
- Rhynchorhina mauritaniensis Séret & Naylor, 2016 (False shark ray)

Last; White; de Carvalho; Séret; Stehmann; Naylor, eds. (2016). Rays of the World. CSIRO. ISBN 978-0-643-10914-8.
Last, P.R.; Séret, B.; Naylor, G.J.P. (2016). "A new species of guitarfish, Rhinobatos borneensis sp. nov. with a redefinition of the family-level classification in the order Rhinopristiformes (Chondrichthyes: Batoidea)". Zootaxa. 4117 (4): 451–475. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4117.4.1. PMID 27395187.
Koeda, K.; Itou, M.; Yamada, M.; Motomura, H. (2020). "Rhynchobatus mononoke, a new species of wedgefish (Rhinopristiformes: Rhinidae) from Japan, with comments on Rhynchobatus laevis (Bloch and Schneider 1801)". Ichthyological Research. 67 (4): 223–238. doi:10.1007/s10228-020-00777-z. S2CID 224917810.

Taxon identifiers
Rhinidae	Wikidata: Q601228 Wikispecies: Rhinidae AFD: Rhinidae BOLD: 747099 CoL: FNR GBIF: 4288061 iNaturalist: 624106 IRMNG: 117743 ITIS: 564007 NCBI: 117884 Open Tree of Life: 1041302 Paleobiology Database: 354478 Plazi: 735C87F1-8A78-FF80-9BF6-FF7D5F76887F WoRMS: 342462

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