Wedgefishes are

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of the

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Rhinidae, comprising eleven

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in three

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. Classified in the

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Rhinopristiformes Rhinopristiformes is an order of rays, cartilaginous fishes related to sharks, containing shovelnose rays and allied groups. Families Rhinopristiformes contains the following families: * Trygonorrhinidae Last, Séret & Naylor, 2016 (fiddle ...

along with

guitarfish The guitarfish, also referred to as shovelnose rays, are a family, Rhinobatidae, of rays. The guitarfish are known for an elongated body with a flattened head and trunk and small, ray-like wings. The combined range of the various species is tro ...

es and

sawfish Sawfish, also known as carpenter sharks, are a family of very large rays characterized by a long, narrow, flattened rostrum, or nose extension, lined with sharp transverse teeth, arranged in a way that resembles a saw. They are among the lar ...

es, they have also been known as giant guitarfishes or sharkfin guitarfishes.

Taxonomy

* ''Rhina''

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& Schneider, 1801 ** '' Rhina ancylostoma'' Bloch & Schneider, 1801 (Shark ray) * ''

Rhynchobatus ''Rhynchobatus'' is a group of rays commonly known as wedgefishes in the family Rhinidae. They are found in the tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific with a single species (''R. luebberti'') in the eastern Atlantic. All species in this genus are ...

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, 1837 ** ''

Rhynchobatus australiae ''Rhynchobatus australiae'', also called the white-spotted guitarfish, white-spotted wedgefish or bottlenose wedgefish, is a species of fish in the Rhinidae family. It is found from shallow waters to a depth of at least in the Indo-Pacific, rang ...

'' Whitley, 1939 (Bottlenose wedgefish) ** '' Rhynchobatus cooki''

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, Kyne & Compagno, 2016 (Roughnose wedgefish) ** ''

Rhynchobatus djiddensis The giant guitarfish (''Rhynchobatus djiddensis''), also known as the whitespotted wedgefish, is a large species of guitarfish in the family Rhinidae. It is restricted to the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and western Indian Ocean, but was formerly cons ...

'' ( Forsskål, 1775) (Whitespotted wedgefish) ** ''

Rhynchobatus immaculatus ''Rhynchobatus immaculatus'', the Taiwanese wedgefish, is a species of fish in the family Rhinidae. It is found in the Pacific Ocean in the vicinity of Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The ...

'' Last, H.-C.Ho & R.-R. Chen, 2013 (Taiwanese wedgefish) ** ''

Rhynchobatus laevis The smoothnose wedgefish (''Rhynchobatus laevis'') is a species of fish in the Rhinidae family. It is found in northern Indian Ocean and northwestern Pacific Ocean, ranging from the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf east to Bangladesh, and South China ...

'' (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) (Smoothnose wedgefish) ** '' Rhynchobatus luebberti''

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, 1915 (African wedgefish) ** '' Rhynchobatus mononoke'' Koeda, Itou, Yamada & Motomura, 2020 (Japanese wedgefish) ** '' Rhynchobatus palpebratus'' Compagno & Last, 2008 (Eyebrow wedgefish) ** ''

Rhynchobatus springeri The broadnose wedgefish (''Rhynchobatus springeri'') is a species of fish in the Rhinidae family. It is found in coastal and estuarine habitats in southeast Asia, where it is documented from Java, Borneo, Singapore, the Philippines and Thailand.C ...

'' Compagno & Last, 2010 (Broadnose wedgefish) * ''Rhynchorhina'' Séret & Naylor, 2016 ** '' Rhynchorhina mauritaniensis'' Séret & Naylor, 2016 (False shark ray)

References

Rhinopristiformes Taxa named by Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle {{batoid-stub