Endangered
Shortnose guitarfish
Zapteryx brevirostris
Shortnose guitarfish is a guitarfish in the family Rhinobatidae (order Rhinopristiformes) — Zapteryx brevirostris, recorded as Endangered.
Range and habitat
The shortnose guitarfish is found in the southwest Atlantic in coastal parts near sandy sea floors of southeastern Brazil, through Uruguay, to northeast Argentina. While the guitarfish is reported to range in northeast Argentina, there are reports of them traveling down to the Falkland Islands.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
The diet of the shortnose guitarfish includes amphipods, polychaetes, lancelets, decapods, cumaceans and isopods. The diet of the shortnose guitarfish changes as the individual gets larger, larger guitarfish predominantly eat isopods, decapods and polychaetes and less amphipods.
In crisis
The guitarfish has become critically endangered because of the rapid decline caused by overfishing. The subsequent accidental catch and release of the shortnose guitarfish can also lead to its endangered conservation status.
Shortnose guitarfish 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 Shortnose guitarfish, Wikidata item Q517488. 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.
