Taxonomy
Ecology & Habitat
Human impact
History & Lore
5 Facts
100
Animalia, Chordata
What is the Kingdom and Phylum?
100

Predators of shovelnose guitarfish

What are coastal sharks and california sea lions?

100
The current state of the shovelnose guitarfish population
What is decreasing?
100
A type of shark
What is the Shovelnose's old classification?
100

swim using their sharklike tail 

What is a Shovelnose Guitar Fish
200
Chondrichthyes, Elasmpobranchii
What is the Class and Subclass?
200

Habitat of shovelnose guitarfish 

What is Sandy or muddy shallow water of bays, sloughs, and estuaries as well as intertidal waters?

200
The shovelnose guitarfish risk of extinction
What is near threatened? 
200
The discoverer of the Shovelnose

Who is Dr. William Orville Ayers?

200
Give live birth
What are female Shovelnose Guitar Fish
300
Rajiformes, Rhinobatidae
What is the Order and Family?
300

Range of shovelnose guitarfish

What is coast of San Francisco California down the pacific coast of Mexico?

300
The way humans use shovelnose guitarfish
What is used for meat and fins?
300
The missing link between sharks and rays.
What is the Shovelnose Guitarfish?
300

100 million years.

How long have they been around
400
Rinobatos
What is the Genus?
400

Diet

What are benthic fish and invertebrates such as shrimp and crabs?

400
The biggest threat to shovelnose guitarfish
What is mainly caught by subsistence or commercial fisheries in mexico and as bycatch in trawls and gillnets?
400
Only one recorded of this.
What is a Shovelnose attack?
400

 90 and 100 cm long

How long is this Fish?
500
R. productus
What is the Species?
500

fish that live on or near the sea bottom

what are benthic fish?

500
The second biggest threat to shovelnose guitarfish
What is habitat modification? 


The areas commonly used for feeding and breeding, such as bays and estuaries in the United States, have been damaged, destroyed, or are now used for fish farming. This habitat modification greatly damaged the population size due to decline in reproduction and food availability. 

500
Looks like a shovel and a guitar
What are the Reasons for the name?
500
11 years
How long they live
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