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Sympterygia acuta Garman, 1877

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Garman, S. 1877. On the pelvis and external sexual organs of selachians, with especial references to the new genera Potamotrygon and Disceus (with descriptions). Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 19: 197-215.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Elasmobranchii
order
Rajiformes
family
Arhynchobatidae
genus
Sympterygia
species
Sympterygia acuta

Name

Synonyms
Raja echinorhyncha Miranda Ribeiro, 1923
Homonyms
Sympterygia acuta Garman, 1877
Common names
Bignose Fanskate in English
Raya Marrón Oscuro in Spanish

Bibliographic References

  1. Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
  2. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
  3. Garman, S. (1877). On the pelvis and external sexual organs of selachians, with especial references to the new genera Potamotrygon and Disceus (with descriptions). <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> v. 19: 197-214.
  4. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  5. McEachran, John D., and Katherine A. Dunn, 1998: Phylogenetic Analysis of Skates, a Morphologically Conservative Clade of Elasmobranchs (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae). Copeia, vol. 1998, no. 2. 271-290.
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