Brown guitarfish
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The brown guitarfish has a sharply pointed snout.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Brown guitarfish
- Scientific name
- Rhinobatos schlegelii
- Japanese name
- サカタザメ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Chondrichthyes
- Order
- Rhinopristiformes
- Family
- Rhinobatidae
- Genus
- Rhinobatos
It lives in Japanese seas from Ibaraki and Niigata to Kyushu and Okinawa, and around the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, China and Vietnam.
How the Brown guitarfish lives
It often lies buried in sand.
宇久井ビジターセンターBasic data
- Range
- Hachijo Island, Seto Inland Sea, Okinawa Islands, East China Sea, southern Korea, Taiwan, Chinese coast, Vietnam, and elsewhere
Where the Brown guitarfish has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- サカタザメ
- 简体中文
- 薛氏犁头鳐
- 繁體中文
- 薛氏琵琶鱝
- 한국어
- 가래상어
- Deutsch
- Schlegels Geigenrochen
- Português (Brasil)
- Raia-viola-nariz-de-garrafa
- Italiano
- Pesce chitarra di Schlegel
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá giống dày lưỡi cày
- Русский
- Гитарный скат Шлегеля
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — サカタザメChecked: 2026-11-04
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — サカタザメChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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