#2060 · 🦈 sharks & rays
Shovelnose Guitarfish
Pseudobatos productus
📍 Isla Vista, CA 93117, USA
📍 Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, CA, US
📍 Orange County, CA, USA
📍 North Pacific Ocean, CA, US
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Brenna Green · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 2. © Alex Bairstow · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Alex Bairstow · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Jacob · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Jacob · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Nicholas Bott · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Isla Vista, CA 93117, USA:© Sophie Cameron · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 8. Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, CA, US:© Lauren Glevanik · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Orange County, CA, USA:© Steven Kurniawidjaja · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. North Pacific Ocean, CA, US:© exploresd03 · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
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base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 1,198 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by William Orville Ayres in 1854 (172 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Shovelnose Guitarfish
- scientific name
- Pseudobatos productus
- class
- Chondrichthyes
- order
- Rhinopristiformes
- family
- Rhinobatidae
- IUCN Red List
- NT · near threatened
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 1,198
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1854 by William Orville Ayres
IUCN in Dutch: gevoelig. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 607510, Wikidata Q25403700, GBIF 9479285, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.