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Raja clavata Linnaeus 1758
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Description
Raja clavata Linnaeus 1758 —Thornback ray
Taxonomy. First record from Lebanon as Raïa clavata, L. by Gruvel (1931: 78); recently recorded as Raja clavata by Lteif (2015: 61).
Distribution. Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, eastern Atlantic and southwestern Indian Ocean: Iceland and central Norway to South Africa, Madagascar and Mauritius (Mascarenes).
Conservation. IUCN: Global (NT: 3 October 2005); Med. (NT: 27 March 2016). Capture and threats: FIB, unknown. Occurrence: Very rare. Medium priority for conservation action.
Notes
Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Rajidae
- Genus
- Raja
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rajiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- clavata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Raja clavata Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Bariche & Fricke, 2020
References
- Gruvel, A. (1931) Les Etats de Syrie. Richesses marines et fluviales. Exploitation actuelle-Avenir. Societe d'Editions Geographiques, Maritimes et Coloniale, 453 pp.
- Lteif, M. (2015) Biology, distribution and diversity of cartilaginous fish species along the Lebanese coast, eastern Mediterranean. Ecology, environment. Universite de Perpignan, English, 262 pp. [NNT: 2015 PERP 0026]