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title: "Spadenose Guitarfish"
description: "Pseudobatos buthi — Poissons. Pseudobatos buthi, the spadenose guitarfish, is a ray in the family Rhinobatidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/spadenose-guitarfish
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Spadenose Guitarfish

> Pseudobatos buthi — Poissons. Pseudobatos buthi, the spadenose guitarfish, is a ray in the family Rhinobatidae.

- Scientific name: *Pseudobatos buthi*
- Category: `fish` (Poissons)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mer et côte)
- iNaturalist observations: 17
- iNaturalist taxon: [1237600](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1237600)

## Names

- en: Spadenose Guitarfish
- es: Guitarra Pala

## Countries with the most observations

MX (11)

## Summary

Pseudobatos buthi, the spadenose guitarfish, is a ray in the family Rhinobatidae. Described in 2019 based on 82 museum specimens, little is known about this species in the wild. All 82 museum specimens were collected in the 1940s and 1950s and sat hidden at UCLA's fish collection and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
This guitarfish of the genus Pseudobatos discovered and by a graduate student studying in Ecology and evolutionary biology in the University of California Los Angeles, Kelsi Rutledge. The name Pseudobatos buthi is named after Don Buth, her mentor.
It likely is similar in ecology and behavior…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudobatos_buthi

## Photo

![Spadenose Guitarfish](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/spadenose-guitarfish/medium.jpg)

Photo: memoosborne · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/265333563

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/spadenose-guitarfish?lang=fr` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).