Critically Endangered
Brazilian guitarfish
Pseudobatos horkelii
Brazilian guitarfish is a guitarfish in the family Rhinobatidae (order Rhinopristiformes) — Pseudobatos horkelii, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The dorsal surface is a uniform olive-grey or brown. There is a dark patch on the snout and the nostrils are long.
This species can grow to a length of 138 cm (54 in), but a more usual adult size is about 60 cm (24 in).
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Brazil, where its natural habitat is coastal waters on the continental shelf.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Because so few breeding-size fish remain, the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed the fish's conservation status as being "critically endangered".
In crisis
Brazilian guitarfish is Critically 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 Brazilian guitarfish, Wikidata item Q25403655. 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.
