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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Elasmobranchii (class)  »  Rajiformes (order)  »  Rhinidae (family)

CAAB Code: 37 026004 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
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Rhynchobatus palpebratus   Compagno & Last, 2008

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes

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Family: 37 26 Rhinidae (Wedgefishes) - show full list
Standard Name: Eyebrow Wedgefish
Common Names List:
Organism Type: a wedgefish
Synonyms: Rhynchobatus djiddensis [in Last & Stevens, 1994: 297-298, in part]
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Coastal (0-40m)
Shelf Demersal (40-200m)
Parent Codes: 37 026900     Rhynchobatus spp.
Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2022-10-12.
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Expected species depth range is from 0 to 60 m.
Scientific Name Notes:Rhynchobatus palpebratus has been confused with R. djiddensis (which is restricted to the western Indian Ocean and Red Sea) and another recently identified Australian species, Rhynchobatus laevis (coded as 37026003).
Common/Standard Name Notes: provisional common name (species not in standard names list)

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:cf52d1c8-a939-4663-8304-d048cdde3dc9
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA 2640
View at FoA
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:398283
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2022-08-21
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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