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Dipturus
Dipturus is a large genus of skates native to the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.[1] They were formerly included in Raja. Some species initially moved to Dipturus were later placed in Dentiraja, Spiniraja, and Zearaja.[2]
| Dipturus | |
|---|---|
| Long-nosed skate (D. oxyrinchus) ♂ | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Superorder: | Batoidea |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Rajidae |
| Genus: | Dipturus Rafinesque, 1810 |
| Type species | |
| Raja batis | |
Species Edit
Currently, 40 recognized species are placed in this genus:[2][3]
- Dipturus acrobelus Last, W. T. White & Pogonoski, 2008 (deepwater skate)
- Dipturus amphispinus Last & Alava, 2013 (Ridgeback skate)[3]
- Dipturus apricus Last, W. T. White & Pogonoski, 2008 (pale tropical skate)
- Dipturus batis (Linnaeus, 1758) (common skate or blue skate)
- Dipturus bullisi (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1962) (Bullis skate)
- Dipturus campbelli (J. H. Wallace, 1967) (blackspot skate)
- Dipturus canutus Last, 2008 (grey skate)
- Dipturus chinensis (Basilewsky, 1855) (Chinese skate)
- Dipturus crosnieri (Séret, 1989) (Madagascar skate)
- Dipturus doutrei (Cadenat, 1960) (violet skate)
- Dipturus ecuadoriensis (Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941) (Ecuador skate)
- Dipturus flavirostris (Philippi {Krumweide}, 1892)
- Dipturus garricki (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1958) (San Blas skate)
- Dipturus gigas (Ishiyama, 1958) (giant skate)
- Dipturus grahami Last, 2008 (Graham's skate)
- Dipturus gudgeri (Whitley, 1940) (greenback skate)
- Dipturus innominatus (Garrick & Paul, 1974) (New Zealand smooth skate)
- Dipturus intermedius (Parnell, 1837) (flapper skate)
- Dipturus johannisdavisi (Alcock, 1899) (Travancore skate)
- Dipturus kwangtungensis (Y. T. Chu, 1960) (Kwangtung skate)
- Dipturus laevis (Mitchill, 1818) (barndoor skate)
- Dipturus lamillai (Concha, Caira, Ebert & Pompert, 2019)[4]
- Dipturus lanceorostratus (J. H. Wallace, 1967) (rattail skate)
- Dipturus leptocauda (G. Krefft & Stehmann, 1975) (thintail skate)
- Dipturus macrocauda (Ishiyama, 1955) (bigtail skate)
- Dipturus melanospilus Last, W. T. White & Pogonoski, 2008 (blacktip skate)
- Dipturus mennii U. L. Gomes & Paragó, 2001 (South Brazilian skate)
- Dipturus nidarosiensis (Storm, 1881) (Norwegian skate)
- Dipturus olseni (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1951) (spreadfin skate)
- Dipturus oregoni (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1958) (hooktail skate)
- Dipturus oxyrinchus (Linnaeus, 1758) (longnosed skate)
- Dipturus pullopunctatus (J. L. B. Smith, 1964) (slime skate)
- Dipturus queenslandicus Last, W. T. White & Pogonoski, 2008 (Queensland deepwater skate)
- Dipturus springeri (J. H. Wallace, 1967) (roughbelly skate)
- Dipturus stenorhynchus (J. H. Wallace, 1967) (prownose skate)
- Dipturus teevani (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1951) (prickly brown ray)
- Dipturus tengu (D. S. Jordan & Fowler, 1903) (acutenose skate)
- Dipturus trachyderma (G. Krefft & Stehmann, 1975) (roughskin skate)
- Dipturus wengi Séret & Last, 2008 (Weng's skate)
- Dipturus wuhanlingi Jeong & Nakabo, 2008 (Wu's skate)
References Edit
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Dipturus in FishBase. October 2013 version.
- ^ a b Last, P.R.; Weigman, S.; Yang, L. (2016). "Changes to the nomenclature of the skates (Chondrichthyes: Rajiformes)". In Last, P.R.; Yearsley, G.R. (eds.). Rays of the World: Supplementary Information. CSIRO Special Publication. pp. 11–34. ISBN 9781486308019.
- ^ a b Last, P.R. & Alava, M. (2013): Dipturus amphispinus sp. nov., a new longsnout skate (Rajoidei: Rajidae) from the Philippines. Pp. 214-227 in: de Carvalho, M.R., Ebert, D.A., Ho, H.-C. & White, W.T. (eds.) : Systematics and biodiversity of sharks, rays, and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of Taiwan. Zootaxa, 3752 (1): 1–386.
- ^ Francisco Concha; Janine Caira; David Ebert; Joost Pompert (1 May 2019). "Redescription and taxonomic status of Dipturus chilensis (Guichenot, 1848), and description of Dipturus lamillai sp. nov. (Rajiformes: Rajidae), a new species of long-snout skate from the Falkland Islands". Zootaxa. 4590 (5): 501–524. Retrieved 19 March 2020.