Shovelnosed Guitar Fish and two adult female Leopard Sharks caught by fisherman, public pier San Diego. Photo Credit Danielle Patton
I noticed this guitarfish in about 20 ft of water as we were swimming back from our dive at Monastery. Brenna had air, so she went down for a closer look, and took a sweet picture.
There were hundreds of them and they let you get within a few feet of them. Too bad the rest of the day was a wreck.
The guitarfish are a family, Rhinobatidae, of rays. The guitarfish are known for an elongated body with a flattened head and trunk and small ray like wings. The combined range of the various species is tropical, subtropical and temperate waters worldwide. They often travel in large schools.
