Rhynchobatus palpebratus

Taxonavigation[edit]

Taxonavigation: Rhinopristiformes
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: Rhinopristiformes

Species: Rhynchobatus palpebratus

Rhynchobatus palpebratus Compagno & Last, 2008

Holotype: CSIRO H 3384-01.
Paratypes: CSIRO C 2291 (1), CA 2373 (1), H 2376-08 (1), H 3322-01 (1), H 3340-01 (1), H 4297-01 (1).

Type locality: Northwest of Wessel Islands, Arafura Sea, Northern Territory, Australia, 10°11'S, 137°17'E, depth 50 meters.

Etymology: palpebra (= eyelid), referring to dark, eyebrow-like marking on suborbital membrane. (From: The ETYFishproject)

English: Eyebrow Wedgefish

Compagno, L.J.V. & Last, P.R. 2008. A new species of wedgefish, Rhynchobatus palpebratus sp. nov. (Rhynchobatoidei: Rhynchobatidae), from the Indo-West Pacific. In: Descriptions of new Australian Chondrichthyans. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 022: 227–240. Reference page.
Last, P.R., Séret, B. & Naylor, G.J.P. 2016. A new species of guitarfish, Rhinobatos borneensis sp. nov. with a redefinition of the family-level classification in the order Rhinopristiformes (Chondrichthyes: Batoidea). Zootaxa 4117(4): 451–475. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4117.4.1. Reference page.

Rhynchobatus palpebratus in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Rhynchobatus palpebratus in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

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