Loose Guitar fish They are animals They have a flattened and cartilage -shaped shapeThey usually live in surface and tempered water funds and have one Great resemblance to his physiognomy with sharks. The guitar fish is divided into three families: Pathinidae, Rhinobatidae and Rhynchobatida.
They have a characteristic triangular cepalic shape it was like it was A guitar or an arrow point. It has an elongated face and the top that runs through the center of the eye is wide.
This marine creature has a mouth with crushing teeth. The usual size is there 80 and 100 centimeters and the largest and most exceptional They can measure up to 150 centimeters.
It is usually Solitarian animals Except at the time of couples and his behavior, not spent aggressively Buried in the sand. Thanks to their colors, they go unnoticed by large predators while they only feed on shellfish, molluscs, very small porte fish.
This species threatens to die out and on different occasions They are trapped in towing fishing nets Causing great depopulation from 9 months pregnancy they have to reproduce.
The Oceanogràfic has organized the birth of a ‘guitar fish’
It is one Types cataloged in critical danger of extinction through the Red List of Endangered Species of the International Union for the preservation of nature (IUCN). Of the two birth -pups, only one has succeeded in surviving.
The birth, which took place on February 18, given the public, assumes “A milestone” for the Valencia Marine Center and strengthens his dedication to the Protection of endangered animalsemphasizes the complex of the city of Art and Sciences.
The team discovered that one of the women was pregnant while performing veterinary controls of adults in the context of the Glaucostegus project, a European initiative led by Oceanogràfic Foundation with the Waterman of Sevilla and Navy Blue Foundation What are you looking for Develop management and nature conservation measures of the guitar population in the natural environment.
The breeding is in the field of ‘Quarantine’ by Oceanogràfic de Valencia
Given this situation, the specialists decided to transfer the pregnant woman to a more sheltered part of the installation of oceans to guarantee their wells. Process culminated with the birth of two young peoplea man and a woman of which Only the man managed to survive.
The survivorwhat care providers are responsible for called ukulele” It is located in the Oceanogràfic Quarantine areaWhere It remains under supervision Until it reaches the right size and weight to transfer it to the ocean nursery, in the access building.
During the first phase of its development, Ukulele fed of his vitellusA food reserve with which you can strengthen weeks of life during the first life. For a few days it has already started eating small rations of Boquerón and Gamba.
He Guitarfish is an Ovovivípara -specus, which means The young people are fully developed at the time of delivery. During the mating, the men bite the breast fins and the album of the women, a behavior that was recorded in the Oceanogràfic on earlier occasions, but without reproduction results.
Thanks to this birth, knowledge about one of the most endangered global fish species can continue.