ハクトウワシ vs Clubnose guitarfish

Haliaeetus leucocephalus compared with Glaucostegus thouin

Key Differences

• ハクトウワシ is Not Evaluated while Clubnose guitarfish is Critically Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	ハクトウワシ	Clubnose guitarfish
Kingdom same	Animalia (動物)	Animalia (動物)
Phylum same	Chordata (脊索動物)	Chordata (脊索動物)
Class	Aves (鳥類)	Elasmobranchii
Order	Accipitriformes (タカ目)	Rhinopristiformes (ノコギリエイ目)
Family	Accipitridae (Hawks & Eagles)	Glaucostegidae
Genus	Haliaeetus (Sea Eagles)	Glaucostegus
Species	Haliaeetus leucocephalus	Glaucostegus thouin

Evolutionary Relationship

ハクトウワシ and Clubnose guitarfish share a common ancestor at the Phylum level: Chordata. (脊索動物)

Conservation Status

ハクトウワシ

NE — Not Evaluated

Population: ~316.7K

Trend: Increasing ↑

Clubnose guitarfish

CR — Critically Endangered

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	ハクトウワシ	Clubnose guitarfish
Diet	Carnivore	—
Average Lifespan	28 years	—
Average Length	90 cm	—
Average Weight	5.0 kg	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

ハクトウワシ

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and flooded grasslands and savannas, among 10 distinct biome types spanning the Neotropic and Palearctic realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Europe (8 countries), North America (United States), and South America (Ecuador).

Clubnose guitarfish

ハクトウワシ

アメリカの国鳥であり保全の成功を象徴するハクトウワシは翼開長が最大2.4 mに達し、北米全域の水辺近くの森林や湿地に生息する。強力な空中捕食者兼腐肉食者で魚を主食とするが、水鳥や腐肉も捕食する。DDT汚染と狩猟によって1960年代にほぼ絶滅に瀕したが、農薬の使用禁止と絶滅危惧種法の施行により劇的に回復した。

Clubnose guitarfish

Glaucostegus thouin, the clubnose guitarfish, is a large elasmobranch in the family Rhinobatidae native to the Indo-Pacific Ocean, ranging from the Red Sea and East African coast across the Indian Ocean to Southeast Asia and northern Australia. This ray reaches lengths of up to approximately 2.7 m and has the characteristic flattened body with a pronounced snout and pectoral fins that give the family its guitarfish name. Like other guitarfishes, it inhabits shallow coastal waters, estuaries, and sandy or muddy seabeds where it forages for benthic invertebrates and small fish. The clubnose guitarfish is listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN due to severe population declines driven primarily by overfishing and bycatch in coastal fisheries across its range. Shallow-water elasmobranch species are particularly vulnerable to depletion because they are easily caught in inshore nets and have slow reproductive rates. The species has been assessed as having suffered extremely high population declines over recent decades, with significant range contractions documented across much of its former distribution. Effective fisheries management and marine protected areas in its core habitat are critical for its recovery.