Glaucostegus thouin

Taxonavigation: Rhinopristiformes

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 Infraclassis: Euselachii Division/Cohort: Neoselachii Subdivision/Subcohort: Batoidea Superordo: Batomorphii Ordo: Rhinopristiformes

Familia: Glaucostegidae
Genus: Glaucostegus
Species: Glaucostegus thouin

Name

Glaucostegus thouin (Anonymous Lacepède, 1798)

• Syntypes: ?MNHN A-7950 (1) Red Sea.

Type locality: No locality (is probably Indonesia).

Etymology: in honor of botanist André Thouin (1746-1824), who helped secure a specimen in Holland and transport it to France. (From: The ETYFish project)

Synonyms

• Raja thouin Anonymous Lacepède, 1798
  • Raja thouini Anonymous Lacepède, 1798
  • Rhinobatos thouin (Anonymous Lacepède, 1798) -- Dor, 1984
• Raja thouiniana Shaw, 1804
  • Rhinobatos thouiniana (Shaw, 1804) -- Mohsin & Ambak 1996
  • Rhinobatus thouiniana (Shaw, 1804) -- Sujatha, 2002
• Rhinobatus (Rhinobatus) ligonifer Cantor, 1849
  • Rhinobatus ligonifer Cantor, 1849

Vernacular names

English: Thouin Ray

References

• Anonymous [Lacepède] 1798. [Review of] Tome I of `Histoire naturelle des poissons' by Lacepède (1798). Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, 3(287): columns 673-680. [Presented at meeting of 24 September. Apparently the first Latinization of a few Lacepède genera.] Reference page. 

Links

• Glaucostegus thouin in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Glaucostegus thouin in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

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