Rajidae ...

• Main Authors: Biscoito, Manuel, Ribeiro, Cláudia, Freitas, Mafalda
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Chondrichthyes; Rajiformes; Rajidae; Nunes; Dipturus batis
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5969990; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5969990

Family Rajidae Dipturus batis (Linnaeus, 1758) —No common name in Madeira; Blue skate Nobre 1935: 475 | Albuquerque 1954 –56: 168 (as Raia batis) Fowler 1936: 111 | Noronha & Sarmento 1948: 121 | Maul 1948: 140 | Nunes 1953: 198 (as Raja macrorynchus) Stehmann 1973: 62 | Stehmann & Bürkel 1984a: 175 | Sanches 1986: 106 (as Raja (Dipturus) batis Lloris et al 1991: 236 (as Raja batis) Ebert & Stehmann 2013: 317–321 (as Dipturus sp. cf. flossada) Carneiro et al. 2014: 15. Distribution in Macaronesia. possibly Madeira archipelago, Azores (Porteiro et al. 2010) and Canary Islands (Brito et al. 2002; Brito Hernández & Sancho Rafel 2003). Remarks. Iglésias et al. (2010) have demonstrated that Dipturus batis (Linnaeus, 1758) is a composite species and provisionally split it into Dipturus sp. cf. flossada and Dipturus sp. cf. intermedia. Last et al. (2016b) retained D. batis and considered Dipturus sp. cf. flossada (Risso, 1826) as a junior synonym. Older records from Madeira refer this species as ... : Published as part of Biscoito, Manuel, Ribeiro, Cláudia & Freitas, Mafalda, 2018, Annotated checklist of the fishes of the archipelago of Madeira (NE Atlantic): I-Chondrichthyes, pp. 459-494 in Zootaxa 4429 (3) on page 486, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1285016 ...