Endangered
Acroteriobatus leucospilus
Acroteriobatus leucospilus
Acroteriobatus leucospilus is a guitarfish in the family Rhinobatidae (order Rhinopristiformes), recorded as Endangered.
The guitarfish
Its reproduction system gives birth to live young, and the maximum length is 96 cm (female specimens).
Range and habitat
Grayspotted guitarfish inhabits the inshore area to a depth of 100 m (328 ft). The coastal areas of its geographic range are known for heavy fishing pressure. This guitarfish is often captured by trawl and gillnet fisheries operating across its habitat.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Sharks and rays grow slowly and have few young. A fishery that treats them as bycatch can empty a coastal form.
In crisis
It has undergone a reduction in population of at least 50% over the past 15 years due to overfishing and harvesting.
Acroteriobatus leucospilus is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Acroteriobatus leucospilus, Wikidata item Q25402512. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
