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Gymnuridae Fowler 1934

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Family Gymnuridae

* Gymnura altavela (Linnaeus, 1758) —Uje-manta; Spiny butterfly ray

Lowe 1839: 92 | Lowe 1843: 94 (as Trygon altavela)

Günther 1870: 486 | Noronha & Sarmento 1934: 124 and 143 | Nobre 1935: 487 | Fowler 1936: 131 | Noronha & Sarmento 1948: 121 | Maul 1948: 140 | Albuquerque 1954 –56: 174 (as Pteroplatea altavela)

Krefft & Stehmann 1973b: 72 | McEachran & Capapé 1984: 204 | Sanches 1986: 116 | Lloris et al. 1991 | Wirtz et al. 2008: 5 | Ebert & Stehmann 2013: 401 | Carneiro et al. 2014: 16.

Distribution in Macaronesia. Madeira and Canary Islands (Brito et al. 2002; Brito Hernández & Sancho Rafel 2003).

Remarks. two formalin preserved specimens in MMF (MMF 14040, 22137) collections (dated from 1958 and 1966). A specimen was collected off Madeira’s north coast in 2005 and lived for seven years in the Aquarium of Porto Moniz (Carolina Ornelas, pers. comm.). Commonly seen by divers in Madeira, including authors (CR and MF).

Notes

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 482, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1285016

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Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.3.2 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/1285016 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFA1FFD8FFE2FFE2FFB5FFEAFF94012A (URL)
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https://www.gbif.org/species/145927850 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/29945/taxon/039887A0FFF5FFF5FF22FEA6FF44021D.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Fowler
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Myliobatiformes
Family
Gymnuridae
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Gymnuridae Fowler, 1934 sec. Biscoito, Ribeiro & Freitas, 2018

References

  • Lowe, R. T. (1839) A supplement to a synopsis of the Fishes of Madeira. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 7, 76 - 92.
  • Gunther, A. (1870) Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum. Vol. 8. British Museum (Natural History), London, 549 pp.
  • Noronha, A. C. & Sarmento, A. A. (1934) Os peixes dos mares da Madeira. Diario de Noticias, Funchal, 146 pp.
  • Nobre, A. (1935) Fauna Marinha de Portugal. I Vertebrados (Mamiferos, Repteis e Peixes). Editora do Minho, Porto, 574 pp.
  • Fowler, H. W. (1936) The Marine Fishes of West Africa. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 70 (1 & 2), 1 - 605 & 607 - 1493.
  • Noronha, A. C. & Sarmento, A. A. (1948) Vertebrados da Madeira: Peixes. Junta Geral do Distrito Autonomo do Funchal, Funchal, 181 pp.
  • Maul, G. E. (1948) Lista Sistematica dos peixes assinalados nos mares da Madeira e indice alfabetico. In: Noronha, A. C. & Sarmento, A. A. Vertebrados da Madeira: Peixes. Junta Geral do Distrito Autonomo do Funchal, Funchal, 137 - 181.
  • Albuquerque, R. M. (1954 - 56) Peixes de Portugal e ilhas adjacentes. Portugaliae Acta Biologica, Museu Nacional de Historia Natural e da Ciencia, Lisboa, Serie B, 1164 pp.
  • Krefft, G. & Stehmann, M. (1973 b) Dasyatidae and Myliobatidae. In: Hureau, J. - C. & Monod, Th. (Eds.), Check-list of the fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and of the Mediterranean (CLOFNAM). Unesco, Paris, pp. 70 - 75.
  • McEachran, J. D. & Capape, D. L. (1984) Dasyatidae, Gymnuridae and Myliobatidae. In: Whitehead, P. J. P., Bauchot, M. - L., Hureau, J. - C. & Tortonese, E. (Eds.), Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Unesco, Paris, pp. 197 - 207.
  • Sanches, J. G. (1986) Nomenclatura e diagnose dos principais peixes marinhos de Portugal. (Ciclostomos, Selaceos e Holocefalos). Instituto Nacional de Investigacao das Pescas, Lisboa, 184 pp.
  • Lloris, D., Rucabado, J. & Figueroa, H. (1991) Biogeography of the Macaroneisan Ichthyofauna (the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, Cape verde and the African Enclave, Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal 43, 191 - 241.
  • Wirtz, P., Fricke, R. & Biscoito, M. J. (2008) The coastal fishes of Madeira Island - new records and an annotated check-list. Zootaxa, 1715, 1 - 26.
  • Ebert, D. A. & Stehmann, M. (2013) Sharks, batoids and chimaeras of the North Atlantic. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 7. FAO, Rome, 523 pp.
  • Carneiro, M., Martins, R., Landi, M. & Costa, F. O. (2014) Updated checklist of marine fishes (Chordata: Craniata) from Portugal and the proposed extension of the Portuguese continental shelf. European Journal of Taxonomy, 73, 1 - 73. https: // doi. org / 10.5852 / ejt. 2014.73
  • Brito, A., Pascual, P. J., Falcon, J. M., Sancho, A. & Gonzalez, G. (2002) Peces de las Islas Canarias: catalogo comentado e ilustrado. Francisco Lemus, La Laguna, 419 pp.