{{Short description|Family of cartilaginous fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = Wedgefishes | image = Rhynchobatus djiddensis durban.jpg | image_caption = Whitespotted wedgefish<br />(''Rhynchobatus djiddensis'') | taxon = Rhinidae | authority = J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = * ''Rhina'' * ''Rhynchobatus'' * ''Rhynchorhina'' }}
'''Wedgefishes''' are rays of the family '''Rhinidae''', comprising eleven species in three genera.<ref name=LastWhite2016>{{cite book|editor1=Last |editor2=White |editor3=de Carvalho |editor4=Séret |editor5=Stehmann |editor6=Naylor | title=Rays of the World | year=2016 | publisher=CSIRO | isbn=978-0-643-10914-8 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Last, P.R. |author2=Séret, B. |author3=Naylor, G.J.P. | year=2016 | title=A new species of guitarfish, Rhinobatos borneensis sp. nov. with a redefinition of the family-level classification in the order Rhinopristiformes (Chondrichthyes: Batoidea) | journal=Zootaxa | volume=4117 | issue=4 | pages=451–475 | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4117.4.1 | pmid=27395187}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Koeda, K. |author2=Itou, M. |author3=Yamada, M. |author4=Motomura, H. | year=2020 | title=Rhynchobatus mononoke, a new species of wedgefish (Rhinopristiformes: Rhinidae) from Japan, with comments on Rhynchobatus laevis (Bloch and Schneider 1801) | journal=Ichthyological Research | volume=67 | issue=4 | pages=223–238 | doi=10.1007/s10228-020-00777-z| s2cid=224917810 }}</ref> Classified in the order Rhinopristiformes along with guitarfishes and sawfishes, they have also been known as giant guitarfishes or sharkfin guitarfishes.
==Taxonomy== * ''Rhina'' <small>Bloch & Schneider, 1801</small> ** ''Rhina ancylostoma'' <small>Bloch & Schneider, 1801</small> (Shark ray) * ''Rhynchobatus'' <small>J. P. Müller & Henle, 1837</small> ** ''Rhynchobatus australiae'' <small>Whitley, 1939</small> (Bottlenose wedgefish) ** ''Rhynchobatus cooki'' <small>Last, Kyne & Compagno, 2016</small> (Roughnose wedgefish) ** ''Rhynchobatus djiddensis'' <small>(Forsskål, 1775)</small> (Whitespotted wedgefish) ** ''Rhynchobatus immaculatus'' <small>Last, H.-C.Ho & R.-R. Chen, 2013</small> (Taiwanese wedgefish) ** ''Rhynchobatus laevis'' <small>(Bloch & Schneider, 1801)</small> (Smoothnose wedgefish) ** ''Rhynchobatus luebberti'' <small>Ehrenbaum, 1915</small> (African wedgefish) ** ''Rhynchobatus mononoke'' <small>Koeda, Itou, Yamada & Motomura, 2020</small> (Japanese wedgefish) ** ''Rhynchobatus palpebratus'' <small>Compagno & Last, 2008</small> (Eyebrow wedgefish) ** ''Rhynchobatus springeri'' <small>Compagno & Last, 2010</small> (Broadnose wedgefish) * ''Rhynchorhina'' <small>Séret & Naylor, 2016</small> ** ''Rhynchorhina mauritaniensis'' <small>Séret & Naylor, 2016</small> (False shark ray)
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