Species profile—Glaucostegus typus (giant shovelnose ray)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes) → Rhinobatidae (guitarfishes) → Glaucostegus typus (giant shovelnose ray)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes)
- Family
- Rhinobatidae (guitarfishes)
- Scientific name
- Glaucostegus typus Bennett, 1830
- Common name
- giant shovelnose ray
- WildNet taxon ID
- 22593
- Synonym(s)
- Rhinobatos typus
Rhinobatos batillum - Alternate name(s)
- common shovelnosed ray
common shovelnosed-ray
great northern shovelnose - Conservation significant
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Dependant Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Marine
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=22593.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
