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The critically endangered bowmouth guitarfish is also threatened by demand for a different luxury item: jewelry.

The guitarfish family of shark-like rays, whose fins are traded like shark fins, also had 37 species receive new protections.

A bowmouth guitarfish, along with about a quarter of the reef fishes, will be purchased from reputable dealers with permits to capture from the wild.

But smaller sea creatures, including shovelnose guitarfish, bat rays and horn sharks, live in Southern California’s estuaries and lagoons, swim just off its coastal beaches and feed along the now-tainted shoreline off Orange County.

They tested the eDNA collected from market drainage systems and found 144 marine creatures represented, including three internationally protected species: two sharks and a close shark relative, the blackchin guitarfish.