Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Pseudobatos planiceps
Guitarra del pacífico, Pacific guitarfish
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Elasmobranchii
Order
Rhinopristiformes
Family
Rhinobatidae
Genus
Pseudobatos
Species
planiceps
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Rhinobatos planiceps Garman, 1880 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: (Rhinobatos p.) Restricted to the eastern Pacific from southern Mexico to central Chile and Galapagos (Grove,1997)
- Grove, J.S. Lavenberg, R.J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford California. 862 pp.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Pseudobatos planiceps", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20209. Accessed 31 October 2026.