Creatures in Crisis
Photograph of Pseudobatos percellens (Pseudobatos percellens), recorded as Endangered
Pseudobatos percellens (Pseudobatos percellens). Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Endangered

Pseudobatos percellens

Pseudobatos percellens

Pseudobatos percellens is a guitarfish in the family Rhinobatidae (order Rhinopristiformes), recorded as Endangered.

Status
Endangered
Scientific name
Pseudobatos percellens
Taxonomy
Elasmobranchii · Rhinopristiformes · Rhinobatidae · Pseudobatos

The guitarfish

Sharks, rays, and guitarfishes: cartilaginous fishes with denticle skin and no true bone.

Range and habitat

Pseudobatos percellens, commonly called the Chola guitarfish, is a fish in the Rhinobatidae family found in the western South Atlantic Ocean.

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

The species is listed as Endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

Pseudobatos percellens 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 Pseudobatos percellens — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q25403689. 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.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia · Wikidata · IUCN Red List.

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Quick answers

What is Pseudobatos percellens?
Pseudobatos percellens is a guitarfish in the family Rhinobatidae (order Rhinopristiformes).
What is the conservation status of Pseudobatos percellens?
Endangered, as the IUCN category stored on Wikidata for Pseudobatos percellens. Confirm the official assessment on iucnredlist.org.
Where does Pseudobatos percellens live?
Pseudobatos percellens, commonly called the Chola guitarfish, is a fish in the Rhinobatidae family found in the western South Atlantic Ocean.
Why is Pseudobatos percellens in crisis?
The species is listed as Endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Is this the IUCN Red List page for Pseudobatos percellens?
No. This is a researched catalog account. The Red List is the assessment.
Is Pseudobatos percellens a pet?
An animal on this catalog is in crisis in the wild. Keeping one is usually the wrong question.