Rio skate
The Rio skate (Rioraja agassizii) is a shallow water skate native to the Atlantic coast of South America from Brazil to southern Argentina. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Rioraja.
| Rio skate | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Superorder: | Batoidea |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Arhynchobatidae |
| Genus: | Rioraja Whitley, 1939 |
| Species: | R. agassizii |
| Binomial name | |
| Rioraja agassizii (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841) | |
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Named in honor of zoologist-geologist Louis Agassiz[1]
References
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order RAJIFORMES : Family ARHYNCHOBATIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2011). "Rioraja agassizii" in FishBase. February 2011 version.
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