Giant guitarfish  (Rhynchobatus djiddensis)

Widely distributed in the tropical Indo-west Pacific (6), ranging from South Africa to the Red Sea, and from Japan to New South Wales, Australia (7). However, this distribution is thought by many to in fact refer to several closely-related species that require taxonomic revision, with the true Rhynchobatus djiddensis thought to be confined to the Western Indian Ocean, and those ranging from the north-western Indian Ocean to the Western Pacific constituting separate species (1).

This bottom-dwelling fish is found in muddy and sandy substrates in estuaries, lagoons and near coral and rocky reefs (5) (7), at intertidal depths to 50 m (2) (8).