- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classElasmobranchii
- ›orderRhinopristiformes
- ›familyRhinidae
- ›genusRhynchobatus
Japanese Wedgefish
Rhynchobatus mononoke Koeda, Itou, Yamada & Motomura, 2020
Also calledJapanischer Gitarrenrochen (deu) · Mononoke-tongarisakatazame (jpn) · Mononoketongarisakatazame (jpn) · Raia-viola-japonesa (por) · سمك الإسفين الياباني (ara) · モノノケトンガリサカタザメ (jpn)
First described in: 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). <em>Ichthyological Research.</em> 68(2): 223-238.
This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Rhynchobatus mononoke in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 11179717.