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Spadenose Guitarfish
Pseudobatos buthi
Pseudobatos buthi, the spadenose guitarfish, is a ray in the family Rhinobatidae. Described in 2019 based on 82 museum specimens, little is known about this species in the wild. All 82 museum specimens were collected in the 1940s and 1950s and sat hidden at UCLA's fish collection and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
This guitarfish of the genus Pseudobatos discovered and by a graduate student studying in Ecology and evolutionary biology in the University of California Los Angeles, Kelsi Rutledge. The name Pseudobatos buthi is named after Don Buth, her mentor.
From the article Pseudobatos buthi on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
Marine species, found on shallow coastal regions of the Gulf of California to at least two metres (7 ft) depth. The map shows the distribution of P. buthi, a new species caught by Boyd Walker and his colleagues in the 1940s and 1950s.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Pseudobatos buthi in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1237600.