Species: Pseudobatos percellens, Chola Guitarfish
Pseudobatos percellens (Walbaum, 1792)
Chola Guitarfish
Body and tail shark-like; snout long, pointed, with 2 central cartilaginous ridges, producing an elongate triangular disc; disc longer than wide; snout tip not flattened and expanded, tubercles absent or round or flat; a large spiracle immediately behind each eye; gill openings on underside; nostrils large, nostril length <1.2X of distance between nostrils, and equal to or slightly >1/2 mouth width; 2 equal-sized dorsal fins, the first behind the pelvics; one row of thorns along back; well developed tail fin that lacks a lower lobe.
Upper surface olive grey to brown or red, occasionally with darker blotches and cream eye-sized spots; lower surface yellowish.
Reaches 100 cm.
Lives in sandy areas, beaches and estuaries.
Depth: 0-110 m.
The southwestern Gulf of Mexico to Argentina.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom only
- Beach
- Mud
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Mobile benthic worms
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Live birth
- No pelagic larva
- No pelagic phase
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Also in Brazil
- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- Extends South of GC
- GC non-endemic
- Island (s)
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Near threatened
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 100
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 110
