| Groupers and morays are common, lobsters can be seen in season and we encountered a common guitarfish. |
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| Another creature to watch for in deep areas is the strange, primitive looking shovelnose ray or giant guitarfish. |
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| On the third try, using heftier nets intended for catching guitarfish, they were successful. |
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| Its spiracles located behind the eyes allow the guitarfish to remain under the sand for long periods of time and breathe easily by flushing clean water over the gills. |
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| But that was the draw: white-spotted guitarfish with the ripply heads of manta rays and the dorsal fins of sharks threshed by, hunting crabs that live in the grass. |
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| Catfish, mullet, jacks, croakers, cowfish, guitarfish, stingrays, crabs and crayfish, are common meals for the lemon shark. |
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| The seabed covered by sea plants is surrounded by whole coral reefs and at a depth of only ten metres you can see guitarfish, all the fish species of the barrier reef and giant turtles adorned with large suckerfish. |
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| Meanwhile, the conservationist is calling on the community to report their sightings of sharks, rays, guitarfish and sawfish. |
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| Gillnet mesh selectivity for the shovelnose guitarfish from fishery-dependent data in the artisanal ray fishery of the Gulf of California, Mexico. |
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| The team also identified the giant guitarfish, Halavi's guitarfish and six species of ray, which all belong to the same elasmobranch family of marine life as sharks. |
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| Guitarfish have a flattened forebody with pectoral fins fused to the sides of the head. |
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