Wedgefish

Wedgefishes
	Whitespotted wedgefish; (Rhynchobatus djiddensis)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Superorder:	Batoidea
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.^[1]^[2]^[3] 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, Ho & 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.