Rhynchobatidae

LARSON, HELEN K., WILLIAMS, REX S. & HAMMER, MICHAEL P., 2013, <strong> An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Northern Territory, Australia </ strong>, Zootaxa 3696 (1), pp. 1-293 : 17

Rhynchobatidae

(wedgefishes)

Rhynchobatus australiae Whitley, 1939

Whitespotted Guitarfish

Rhynchobatus djiddensis australiae Whitley, 1939a: 245 , fig. 14 (off Manning River mouth, NSW).

Rhynchobatus djiddensis — Sainsbury et al. 1984: 330 (Region D [= Top End NT seas]); Russell and Houston 1989: 79 (Arafura Sea); Blaber et al. 1992: 6 (Groote Eylandt); Pender et al. 1992: 65 (Melville Island area; Arnhem coast; western Gulf of Carpentaria); (in part) Last and Stevens 1994: 298 (tropical Australia; map); Ramm 1997: 11 (Timor and Arafura Seas); Larson and Williams 1997: 343 (Vesteys Beach, Darwin Harbour); Larson 1997: 24 (Kakadu); Larson 1999b: 25 (Kakadu).

Rhynchobatus laevis ( Bloch & Schneider, 1801)

Smoothnose Wedgefish

Rhinobatus laevis Bloch and Schneider, 1801: 354 ( Japan) .

Rhynchobatus djiddensis (in part)— Last and Stevens 1994: 298 (tropical Australia; map).

Rhynchobatus cf laevis — Compagno and Last 1999: 1422 (northern Australia).

Rhynchobatus laevis — Last and Stevens 2009: 230 (northern Australia; map).

This species has been confused with Rhynchobatus djiddensis .

Rhynchobatus palpebratus Compagno and Last, 2008 Eyebrow Wedgefish Rhynchobatus palpebratus Compagno and Last, 2008: 230–236 (north-west of Wessel Islands, Arafura Sea, Northern Territory).

N of Groote Eylandt ( CSIRO paratype) .