Hexatrygon bickelli

Hexatrygon bickelli

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Plesiobatoidea

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 Infraclassis: Euselachii Division/Cohort: Neoselachii Subdivision/Subcohort: Batoidea Superordo: Batomorphii Ordo: Myliobatiformes Superfamilia: Plesiobatoidea

Familia: Hexatrygonidae
Genus: Hexatrygon
Species: Hexatrygon bickelli

Name

Hexatrygon bickelli Heemstra & Smith, 1980

Holotype: SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 997.

Type locality: Beach at Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Synonyms

• Hexatrematobatis longirostrum Chu & Meng, 1981
• Hexatrygon bickelli Heemstra & Smith, 1980
• Hexatrygon brevirostra Shen, 1986
• Hexatrygon longirostra (Chu & Meng, 1981)
• Hexatrygon taiwanensis Shen, 1986
• Hexatrygon yangi Shen & Liu, 1984

References

• Heemstra, P.C. & M.M. Smith 1980: Hexatrygonidae, a new family of stingrays (Myliobatiformes: Batoidea) from South Africa, with comments on the classification of batoid fishes. Ichthyological Bulletin of the J. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, 43: 1–17.
• Babu, S., S. Ramachandran & C. Varghese, 2011: On a new record of sixgill sting ray Hexatrygon bickelli Heemstra and Smith, 1980 from south-west coast of India., Indian Journal of Fisheries., 58(2): 137–139.
• Hexatrygon bickelli in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

Vernacular names

English: Sixgill Stingray