Gurgesiella
Appearance
Gurgesiella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Order: | Rajiformes |
Family: | Gurgesiellidae |
Genus: | Gurgesiella F. de Buen, 1959 |
Type species | |
Gurgesiella furvescens de Buen, 1959
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Gurgesiella is a genus of fish in the family Gurgesiellidae. These relatively small deep-water skates are found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans off South and Central America.[1]
Species
[edit]- Gurgesiella atlantica (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1962) (Atlantic pygmy skate)
- Gurgesiella dorsalifera McEachran & Compagno, 1980 (Onefin skate)
- Gurgesiella furvescens F. de Buen, 1959 (Dusky finless skate)
References
[edit]- ^ Weigmann, S., Séret, B., Last, P.R. & McEachran, J.D. 2016. Pygmy Skates, Family Gurgesiellidae. Pp. 473–493 in Last, P.R., White, W.T., Carvalho, M.R., Séret, B., Stehmann, M. & Naylor, G.J.P. (eds.). Rays of the World. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne. ISBN 9780643109131. Reference page.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Gurgesiella". FishBase. February 2011 version.