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Hexatrygon Heemstra & Smith 1980

Description

Genus Hexatrygon Heemstra & Smith, 1980

Sixgill Stingray

Hexatrygon Heemstra & Smith, 1980: 1. Type by original designation (also monotypic).

Notes

Published as part of Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4947 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614567

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Heemstra & Smith
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Myliobatiformes
Family
Hexatrygonidae
Genus
Hexatrygon
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Hexatrygon Heemstra, 1980 sec. Ebert, Wintner & Kyne, 2021

References

  • Heemstra, P. C. & Smith, M. M. (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.