Rays of the World

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The thin edge of the wedge: extremely high extinction risk in wedgefishes and giant guitarfishes (2019, methodology): “…Guitarfish (Glaucostegus typus) of 19 years (250 cm TL female) was reported by White et al. (2014) and while age-at-maturity was not reported, it can be estimated from the growth curve as 7 years (by reading the corresponding age at 165 cm TL, the mid-point of size-at-maturity; Last et al., 2016c).”
Annotated checklist of the fishes of Madagascar, southwestern Indian Ocean, with 158 new records (2018, background): “Remarks: Pastinachus sephen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775) was restricted to the Red Sea, Persian Gulf and northwestern Indian Ocean (Last et al. in Last et al. 2016: 596).”
Troubled waters: Threats and extinction risk of the sharks, rays and chimaeras of the Arabian Sea and adjacent waters (2018, methodology): “Worldwide, 46% of chondrichthyans are DD, one of the highest documented rates of DD of any taxonomic group to date (Dulvy et al., 2014; Hoffmann et al., 2010).”