wedgefish

{{Short description|Family of cartilaginous fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Wedgefishes

| image = Rhynchobatus djiddensis durban.jpg

| image_caption = Whitespotted wedgefish
(Rhynchobatus djiddensis)

| taxon = Rhinidae

| authority = J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision =

• Rhina
• Rhynchobatus
• Rhynchorhina

}}

Wedgefishes are rays of the family Rhinidae, comprising eleven species in three genera.{{cite book|editor1=Last |editor2=White |editor3=de Carvalho |editor4=Séret |editor5=Stehmann |editor6=Naylor | title=Rays of the World | year=2016 | publisher=CSIRO | isbn=978-0-643-10914-8 }}{{cite journal|author=Last, P.R. |author2=Séret, B. |author3=Naylor, G.J.P. | year=2016 | title=A new species of guitarfish, Rhinobatos borneensis sp. nov. with a redefinition of the family-level classification in the order Rhinopristiformes (Chondrichthyes: Batoidea) | journal=Zootaxa | volume=4117 | issue=4 | pages=451–475 | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4117.4.1 | pmid=27395187}}{{cite journal|author=Koeda, K. |author2=Itou, M. |author3=Yamada, M. |author4=Motomura, H. | year=2020 | title=Rhynchobatus mononoke, a new species of wedgefish (Rhinopristiformes: Rhinidae) from Japan, with comments on Rhynchobatus laevis (Bloch and Schneider 1801) | journal=Ichthyological Research | volume=67 | issue=4 | pages=223–238 | doi=10.1007/s10228-020-00777-z| s2cid=224917810 }} Classified in the order Rhinopristiformes along with guitarfishes and sawfishes, they have also been known as giant guitarfishes or sharkfin guitarfishes.