When we did the #whaleshark dive at @georgiaaquarium.bsky.social a few years ago, they had a #bowmouth #guitarfish in the same tank. We were told the critter is mischievous, and likes to pull divers' fins to startle them. 😂

The recommendation was to make frequent eye contact when it was near

Brazil protects huge coastal area with endangered dolphins and megafauna fossils Brazil’s federal government created a huge conservation area on March 6 to protect a critical biodiversity hotspot in the Atlantic Ocean. The newly created Albardão marine park and coastal environment...

Important elasmobranch species in the area include endangered #angelshark" and "critically endangered #bowmouth #guitarfish (Rhina ancylostomus)."

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Hot off the press, "A zero annual export quota for wild-taken specimens traded for commercial purposes" annotation has been adopted for Giant Guitarfish (Glaucostegus spp.) at the #CITESCoP20

Follow along as more updates happen live!

#CITES #CoP20 #guitarfish #shark #ray #chimaera #biodiversity

🌊 Studying the ecology and fishery interactions of the critically endangered blackchin guitarfish (Glaucostegus cemiculus) in Cyprus, integrating citizen science with research and turning local wisdom into conservation action #CitizenScience #Guitarfish #Cyprus #EEA2025

This is why I went to Mozambique to #scuba #dive

#bowmouth #guitarfish #sealife #wildlife

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A giant shovel nose ray at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium, Salt Lake City, Utah

#MarineLife #Rays #Elasmobranchs #Guitarfish #Rhinobatidae #SLC #GlaucostegusTypus

The underside of the front of a giant shovel nose ray being illuminated by a light from above so that you can see through the triangular tip.

The underside of a giant shovelnose ray being illuminated by a light

#JuneSea #Illuminate #MarineLife #Guitarfish #Elasmobranch #Rays #LovelandLivingPlanetAquarium #Photography

Meet Nahla, who will determine guitarfish ages, filling in knowledge gaps and preparing recommendations to inform policies for three Critically Endangered guitarfish species.

More info here: saveourseas.com/project/brin...

#SOSF2025Projects #guitarfish

Illustration by Kelsey Manners Dickson

Meet Rodrigo, who is testing whether guitarfish exposed to pressures by humans express a greater number of stress-adaptation-related genes.

More info here: saveourseas.com/project/are-...

#SOSF2025Projects #saveourseasfoundation #guitarfish #Brazil

Photo by Rodrigo Domingues

Subject: Banded Guitarfish. Guitarfish look like stingrays, but with fish tails. This one is light gray/brown with black or dark gray bands and stripes and is laying on a sand bottom facing the camera.

Captured this image of a banded guitarfish back in 2018 in the Sea of Cortez. This trip was jam-packed with critters and I barely knew how to use my TG-5 to capture them. Might be time for a return trip.

#underwaterPhotography #photography #guitarfish #seaOfCortez #Mexico #scubaDiving #olympus 🦑 📷

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#fisheries #fisheriesscience #fisheriespodcast #womeninstem #guitarfish #science #miami #sharks #fish #fishing

🏷️ #illustration #art #scientificillustration #scicomm #bowmouthguitarfish #guitarfish #marinebiology #biology #ecology #drawing #coloredpencil #anatomy #dentition #deepgreenravine

Usually don't take pictures of #guitarfish that I catch #surfflyfishing because they tend to be foul hooked. But this one was fair. Didn't take a picture of the fly in its month because it's fairly ugly upside down. #flyfishing #flyfishthesurf #ondafly

🏷️ #illustration #art #scientificillustration #biology #marinebiology #ecology #guitarfish #ray #coloredpencil #artoftheday #deepgreenravine

Find us on your favorite listening app, or listen here!: fisheriespodcast.podbean.com/e/297-kylie-...

#fisheries #podcast #fisheriespodcast #scicomm #womeninstem #fish #guitarfish #scubadiving #miami #fishing #physiology #science #fisheriesscience

A giant shovelnose ray (guitarfish) at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Draper, Utah 🦑

#FishyFeb #Ray #Guitarfish #Shovelnose #Elasmobranch #Utah

A shot from below a giant shovelnose ray, the triangular tip is slightly transparent and points to the right, the mouth and gills are also visible. A light shines into the aquarium water in the background

Today’s #JanuArty #JanuArty2025 theme is ‘triangle’ Naturally, a Giant Shovelnose Ray has entered the chat 🔺😎

#MarineLife #GiantShovelnose #Guitarfish #Elasmobranch #Photography #Rays #Triangle

Distributional limits of the Shortnose Guitarfish, <i>Zapteryx brevirostris</i> (Rhinopristiformes: Trygonorrhinidae) - An update Abstract The Shortnose Guitarfish, Zapteryx brevirostris , is endemic to the Southwest Atlantic...

New paper in Ocean and Coastal Research using @gbif.org mediated data:

Distributional limits of the Shortnose #Guitarfish, #Zapteryx brevirostris (Rhinopristiformes: Trygonorrhinidae) - An update

#CiteTheDOI: ✅

#OpenAccess: ⭐️

https://doi.org/10.1590/2675-2824072.23119

An illustration of a bowmouth guitarfish, dark blue with light blue spots, on a purple background. The text at the bottom reads "Bowmouth Guitarfish" and "Rhina ancylostomus" (its scientific name). The guitarfish has a broad, flat body with pectoral fins resembling wings and a shark-like tail.

It's a shark, it's a ray, it's... a guitar?? 🎸🐟

Meet the Bowmouth Guitarfish! Also called the Shark Ray, they're not sharks - but they are rays! (How can you tell? Look for the gills underneath! Shark's gills are on the side of their bodies.)

[ #art #rays #guitarfish ]

There's a rare fish in the Red Sea that looks like a guitar – and it may soon be lost forever The critically endangered halavi guitarfish could be extinct in a few years’ time if nothing is done to save it, say scientists.

#sharks are becoming the new #dolphins; i.e.
the animals everybody talks about saving. That's not a bad thing, but it would be great if some of that love could be directed towards endangered #guitarfish

www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

Have you ever seen a #guitarfish? Read about our work and learn about these wonderful species here: roundglasssustain.com/species/guit...

@oxfordbiology.bsky.social

After many hours at sea with Gabonese & Congolese fishers, Congolese fisheries agents & a Gabonese PhD student, the team successfully tagged #tigersharks, blackchin #guitarfish & African #wedgefish with Tags4Wildlife tags - we look forward to sharing more!
@phildoherty.bsky.social

#Sharks and #rays play important role in the local economy & #foodsecurity across the region. This study observed landing of 42 different species - 81% considered at elevated risk of extinction, including observations of most imperilled families – #guitarfish, #wedgefish & #angelsharks ⚠️

New #OA paper using long-term landing site surveys in Rep. of Congo tinyurl.com/sp7pvfcb Tens of thousands of #sharks landed annually in important artisanal #fishery inc. juveniles Critically endangered species thought absent in region - stronghold for #wedgefish & #guitarfish? 🧪🦑🌎🐡🦈

#RandomHashtagOfTheDay for Sunday, December 11 is: #guitarfish

#NewSpeciesAlert - Description of a new species of giant #guitarfish, 𝐺𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑢𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑛ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑖 sp. nov. (Rhinopristiformes: #Glaucostegidae) from northern Bay of Bengal, #Bangladesh, published in @Zootaxa
#NewFishSpecies #Taxonomy
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