Notoraja alisae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Rajiformes
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Classis: Chondrichthyes Subclassis: Elasmobranchii Superordo: Rajomorphii Ordo: Rajiformes

Familia: Rajidae
Subfamilia: Arhynchobatinae
Tribus: Arhynchobatini
Genus: Notoraja
Species: Notoraja alisae

Name

• Notoraja alisae Séret & Last, 2012

Type material: Holotype: MNHN 1997-3598. Paratypes: MNHN 1977-3599, 1997-3600.

Type locality: Southwest Pacific, off New Caledonia, northern sector of the Norfolk Ridge, 23°10.41’S, 166°49.16’E, 870 m depth.[1]

Etymology: From the name of the French research vessel Alis of the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) in Nouméa, with which numerous exploratory cruises have been performed in New Caledonian EEZ in the last decades; the name of the ship Alis came from the name of a local wind.

References

• Séret, B. & Last, P. R., 2012: New deep water skates of the genus Notoraja Ishiyama, 1958 (Rajoidei, Arhynchobatidae) from the southwest Pacific. Zoosystema, 34 (2): 319–341.