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Scientific Name: Rhynchobatus laevis (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
English Name: Smoothnose Wedgefish
Local/Bangla Name: Not Known.
Photo: Gaurav Patil(iNaturalist)
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Elasmobranchii
Order: Rhinopristiformes
Family: Rhinidae
Description:
Snout short, broad and bluntly angular in young, narrower in adults; thorns small, blunt, present along dorsal mid-line,
on shoulder, beside spiracle and around upper margin of eye; dorsal fins weakly falcate; 1st dorsal fin 1.2–1.5 taller than 2nd; pectoral fin apices angular; total free vertebral centra 135–144. Body colour greyish brown above, white below; prominent dark pectoral marking usually surrounded by 4–5 white spots; upper body with multiple rows of white spots posterior to level of pectoral markings; a black blotch on anterior half of snout ventrally; orbital membrane usually with curved black markings.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Demersal inshore on the continental shelf, Bay of Bengal.
Environment:
Marine
Main References:
Haque AB, Hasan SJ, Hossain N, Khan S, Rahman S, Karim E (2023) Elasmobranch Fishery in Bangladesh (ed. Yahia Mahmud), Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute, 144 p.
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