The eastern fiddler ray (''Trygonorrhina fasciata''), also called the banjo shark, fiddler ray, fiddler, green skate, magpie fiddler ray, parrit, southern fiddler ray or southern fiddler, is a species of
fish
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of ...
in the
Rhinobatidae family. It is endemic to eastern Australia. Its natural
habitat
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is open
sea
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eastern fiddler ray
The eastern fiddler ray (''Trygonorrhina fasciata''), also called the banjo shark, fiddler ray, fiddler, green skate, magpie fiddler ray, parrit, southern fiddler ray or southern fiddler, is a species of fish in the Rhinobatidae family. It is en ...
Fauna of New South Wales
Marine fish of Eastern Australia
eastern fiddler ray
The eastern fiddler ray (''Trygonorrhina fasciata''), also called the banjo shark, fiddler ray, fiddler, green skate, magpie fiddler ray, parrit, southern fiddler ray or southern fiddler, is a species of fish in the Rhinobatidae family. It is en ...
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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