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Issue: Vol. 4098 No. 1: 5 Apr. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-04-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4098.1.9
Page range: 179–190
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Notoraja martinezi sp. nov., a new species of deepwater skate and the first record of the genus Notoraja Ishiyama, 1958 (Rajiformes: Arhynchobatidae) from the eastern Pacific Ocean

Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut. 75 North Eagleville Road – Unit 3043 Storrs, CT, 06269, USA.
Pacific Shark Research Center, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA. Department of Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, CA. 94118, USA. South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Private Bag 1015, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa.
Department of Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, CA. 94118, USA. Department of Biology, St. Mary’s College, 1928 St. Mary’s Road, Moraga, California 94575.
Pisces Chondrichthyes batoids softnose skate new species eastern Pacific

Abstract

A new arhynchobatid skate, Notoraja martinezi, sp. nov., is described from four specimens collected from the eastern Central Pacific from Costa Rica to Ecuador and between depths of 1256–1472 m. The new species is placed in the genus Notoraja based on the long and flexible rostrum and its proportionally long tail with respect to total length. This species is distinct from its congeners in the Western Pacific by the straight margins of its rostrum, long anterior lobes of pelvic fins, and its abundant and very well developed caudal thorns.

 

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