Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Rajiformes 

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
Superordo: Rajomorphii
Ordo: Rajiformes

Familia: Rajidae
Subfamilia: Arhynchobatinae
Tribus: Arhynchobatini
Genus: Notoraja
Species: Notoraja alisae

Name

  • Notoraja alisae Séret & Last, 2012

Type material: Holotype: MNHN 1997-3598. Paratypes: MNHN 1977-3599, 1997-3600.

Type locality: Southwest Pacific, off New Caledonia, northern sector of the Norfolk Ridge, 23°10.41’S, 166°49.16’E, 870 m depth.

Etymology: From the name of the French research vessel Alis of the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) in Nouméa, with which numerous exploratory cruises have been performed in New Caledonian EEZ in the last decades; the name of the ship Alis came from the name of a local wind.

References

  • Séret, B. & Last, P. R., 2012: New deep water skates of the genus Notoraja Ishiyama, 1958 (Rajoidei, Arhynchobatidae) from the southwest Pacific. Zoosystema, 34 (2): 319–341.
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