Fishing Discards of Rays and Skates Rajidae in Galicia Waters
The IX Iberian Congress of Ichthyology, 2022 J. Valeiras +6 more
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Step by step: the unprecedented evolutionary history of family Rajidae [PDF]
, 2019 Among skates, Rajidae represents one of the most enigmatic family of cartilaginous fish whose bio- ecological traits contributed to an extraordinary evolutionary success in terms of species richness and endemism. Past and present taxonomic conflicts and species misidentifications are linked to their extraordinary level of morphological stasis.
Alice Ferrari +5 more
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Distribution and taxonomic identity of the species of Narcine (Toperdiniformes: Narcinidae) in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean. [PDF]
J Fish BiolAbstract The genus Narcine is the most diverse among electric rays of the order Torpediniformes and is also the only electric ray genus with more than one species occurring in South American waters: Narcine brasiliensis and Narcine bancroftii. The first species has been historically described as distributed from Brazil's southeast coast down to ...
Gonçalves Araújo MV +2 more
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Behavioural Responses of a Large, Benthic Elasmobranch to Catch-and-Release Angling
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Catch-and-release angling is widespread, but the impacts of this practice for captured individuals are understudied, especially among elasmobranchs.
Edward Lavender +9 more
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Description of the egg capsule of Atlantoraja castelnaui (Elasmobranchii, Rajidae) [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Oceanography, 2008 Instituto de Pesca (Av. Bartolomeu de Gusmao, 192, Ponta da Praia, 11030-906 Santos, SP, Brasil) *cristina_oddone@yahoo.com Skates (Rajidae) are oviparous and lay their eggs on the sea floor. Their large horny capsules are synthesized and secreted by the nidamental gland (WOURMS, 1977; WOURMS et ...
María Cristina Oddone +2 more
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Aquatic eDNA outperforms sedimentary eDNA for the detection of estuarine fish communities in subtropical coastal vegetated ecosystems. [PDF]
J Fish BiolAbstract In South Africa, mangrove forests and seagrass meadows often co‐occur in estuarine systems and in combination host rich, often endemic biodiversity. There is an urgent need to explore community diversity in coastal vegetated ecosystems, given the degrading effects of climate change and anthropogenic pressures.
Rossouw EI, von der Heyden S, Peer N.
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Ege Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 2023 This study investigated the feeding habits of Raja miraletus Linnaeus, 1758 and Dipturus oxyrinchus (Linnaeus, 1758). For the purpose of this study, the specimens were obtained monthly from the commercial trawlers operating around the Gökçeada Island in ...
Koray Cabbar, C. C. Yığın
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Okamejei picta sp. nov., a new rajid skate from the South China Sea (Rajiformes: Rajidae).
Zootaxa, 2023 A new species of Okamejei is described based on two adult males collected from deep waters in the South China Sea. The new species, Okamejei picta sp.
Shing-Lai Ng +3 more
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Morphological deformities and atypical colour pattern in thornback ray, Raja clavata (Elasmobranchii: Rajiformes: Rajidae), from Izmir (Turkey, Aegean Sea, Eastern Mediterranean) [PDF]
Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 2018 Two specimens of the thornback ray, Raja clavata Linnaeus, 1758, from Turkish waters, exhibiting deformities of disc and tail are described in the present paper.
C. Capapé, I. Aydin, O. Akyol
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Aquatic conservation, 2022 1. This study provides the first report of an egg nursery for the Critically Endangered flapper skate Dipturus intermedius and a description of the habitat, thus contributing towards our understanding of essential habitats for the species. 2. In total, 1,
J. Dodd +7 more
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