Sealife guideThe Rhinopristiformes orderThe taxonomy of marine species

Explore the taxonomy of the sea vertebrates including the cetaceans like the whales or the dolphins, the sea birds, the fish, the sharks and the sea turtles !

Halavi guitarfish
(Glaucostegus halavi)

White spotted wedgefish
(Rhynchobatus australiae)

Atlantic guitarfish
(Rhinobatos lentiginosus)

Banded guitarfish
(Zapteryx exasperata)

Beaked guitarfish
(Rhinobatos schlegelii)

Eastern fiddler ray
(Trygonorrhina fasciata)

Gorgona guitarfish
(Pseudobatos prahli)

Shovelnose guitarfish
(Pseudobatos productus)

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Gorette bleue
(Haemulon sciurus)