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Rhina Bloch & Schneider 1801 a name applied by Artedi and predecessors to angel sharks (Squatinidae) reapplied to this family, etymology uncertain, perhaps from rhís (Gr. ῥίς), snout, or its genitive rhinós (ῥινός), referring to its wide, rounded snout, or based on rhīna, an ancient name for a kind of shark, from rhinós (Gr. ῥινός), skin or hide of a beast, or rhínē (Gr. ῥίνη), rasp, both apparently alluding to a shark’s rasp-like skin

Rhina ancylostoma Bloch & Schneider 1801 ancylo-, from ankúlos (Gr. ἀγκύλος), bent, curved or bowed; stomus, from stóma (Gr. στόμα), mouth, probably referring to bow-shaped mouth [sometimes spelled ancylostoma, treating the name as an adjective, i.e., bow-mouthed]

Rhynchobatus Müller & Henle 1837 rhýnchos (Gr. ῥύγχος), snout, referring to pointed snout of R. laevis; batus, from bátos (Gr. βάτος) or batís (βατίς), a flat fish, usually applied to a skate or ray

Rhynchobatus australiae Whitley 1939 of Australia, proposed as an Australian subspecies of R. djiddensis

Rhynchobatus cooki Last, Kyne & Compagno 2016 in honor of the late Sidney F. Cook (1953–1997), shark fisheries biologist, a “pioneer in shark conservation” who participated in surveys of chondrichthyan fishes in South-East Asia at the time type specimens were collected [name for this species incorrectly given as R. compagnoi in the 2016 book Rays of the World]

Rhynchobatus djiddensis (Forsskål 1775) –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: described in part from the Red Sea of Djidda (now Jedda), Saudi Arabia

Rhynchobatus immaculatus Last, Ho & Chen 2013 im-, Latin privative, i.e., not; maculatus (L.), spotted, referring to the absence of a dark pectoral marking otherwise present in small individuals of congeners

Rhynchobatus laevis (Bloch & Schneider 1801) from levis (L.), smooth, presumably referring to smooth body and small, cobblestone-like scales

Rhynchobatus luebberti Ehrenbaum 1914 in honor of friend and colleague Hans Julius Lübbert (1870–1951), German fisheries inspector and director

Rhynchobatus mononoke Koeda, Itou, Yamada & Motomura 2020 Japanese for specter, referring to ventral surface appearing like a traditional Japanese specter, wearing a triangular white hat (crown) on its forehead

Rhynchobatus palpebratus Compagno & Last 2008 -atus (L.), provided with: palpebra (L.), eyelid, referring to dark, eyebrow-like marking on suborbital membrane

Rhynchobatus springeri Compagno & Last 2010 in honor of the late American ichthyologist Stewart Springer (1906–1991), for his contribution to the systematics of Rhynchobatus

Rhynchorhina Séret & Naylor 2016 a composite name derived from Rhynchobatus and Rhina indicating how it exhibits features of both genera, i.e., a Rhynchobatus-like body with a rounded snout resembling Rhina

Rhynchorhina mauritaniensis Séret & Naylor 2016 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Islamic Republic of Mauritania, where it is endemic