Pseudobatos lentiginosus

Taxonavigation

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

Pseudobatos lentiginosus (Garman, 1880)

Holotype (unique): MCZ 97-S.

Type locality: Florida, U.S.A.

Etymology: lentiginosus (= freckled), referring to its dense freckling of small pale spots. (From: The ETYFish Project)

Garman, S. 1880. New species of selachians in the museum collection. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 6(11): 167–172. BHL Reference page.
Last, P.R., Séret, B. & Naylor, G.J.P. 2016. A new species of guitarfish, Rhinobatos borneensis sp. nov. with a redefinition of the family-level classification in the order Rhinopristiformes (Chondrichthyes: Batoidea). Zootaxa 4117(4): 451–475. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4117.4.1. Reference page.

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

English: Atlantic Guitarfish

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