Rhinoptera studeri Agassiz, 1843

Höltke, Olaf, Salvador, Rodrigo B. & Rasser, Michael W., 2023, Trophic relationships in the Early Miocene Upper Marine Molasse of Baden-Württemberg, Southwest Germany, with special emphasis on the elasmobranch fauna, Palaeontologia Electronica (a 46) 26 (3), pp. 1-38 : 37-38

Rhinoptera studeri Agassiz, 1843

Tooth type: Grinding.

Dietary data is only available for two extant species of Rhinoptera , R. bonasus (Mitchill, 1815) and R. brasiliensis Müller, 1836 , both of which feed on molluscs (Myers et al., 2007; Last et al., 2016b). That said, Froese and Pauly (2019) assigned TL values to all seven extant species, ranging from 3.2 to 3.8. Members of Rhinoptera live in the benthopelagic zone in the open ocean as well as inshore on the continental shelf, down to a depth of 100 m (Last et al., 2016b).