Dipturus

Dipturus is a large genus of skates native to the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.[1] They were formerly included in Raja. Some species initially moved to Dipturus were later placed in Dentiraja, Spiniraja, and Zearaja.[2]

Dipturus
Long-nosed skate (D. oxyrinchus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Rajiformes
Family: Rajidae
Genus: Dipturus
Rafinesque, 1810
Type species
Raja batis

Species

Currently, 40 recognized species are placed in this genus:[2][3]

Dipturus innominatus
Dipturus laevis
  • Dipturus acrobelus Last, W. T. White & Pogonoski, 2008 (deepwater skate)
  • Dipturus amphispinus Last & Alava, 2013 (Ridgeback skate)[3]
  • Dipturus apricus Last, W. T. White & Pogonoski, 2008 (pale tropical skate)
  • Dipturus batis (Linnaeus, 1758) (common skate or blue skate)
  • Dipturus bullisi (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1962) (Bullis skate)
  • Dipturus campbelli (J. H. Wallace, 1967) (blackspot skate)
  • Dipturus canutus Last, 2008 (grey skate)
  • Dipturus chinensis (Basilewsky, 1855) (Chinese skate)
  • Dipturus crosnieri (Séret, 1989) (Madagascar skate)
  • Dipturus doutrei (Cadenat, 1960) (violet skate)
  • Dipturus ecuadoriensis (Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941) (Ecuador skate)
  • Dipturus flavirostris (Philippi {Krumweide}, 1892)
  • Dipturus garricki (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1958) (San Blas skate)
  • Dipturus gigas (Ishiyama, 1958) (giant skate)
  • Dipturus grahami Last, 2008 (Graham's skate)
  • Dipturus gudgeri (Whitley, 1940) (greenback skate)
  • Dipturus innominatus (Garrick & Paul, 1974) (New Zealand smooth skate)
  • Dipturus intermedius (Parnell, 1837) (flapper skate)
  • Dipturus johannisdavisi (Alcock, 1899) (Travancore skate)
  • Dipturus kwangtungensis (Y. T. Chu, 1960) (Kwangtung skate)
  • Dipturus laevis (Mitchill, 1818) (barndoor skate)
  • Dipturus lamillai (Concha, Caira, Ebert & Pompert, 2019)[4]
  • Dipturus lanceorostratus (J. H. Wallace, 1967) (rattail skate)
  • Dipturus leptocauda (G. Krefft & Stehmann, 1975) (thintail skate)
  • Dipturus macrocauda (Ishiyama, 1955) (bigtail skate)
  • Dipturus melanospilus Last, W. T. White & Pogonoski, 2008 (blacktip skate)
  • Dipturus mennii U. L. Gomes & Paragó, 2001 (South Brazilian skate)
  • Dipturus nidarosiensis (Storm, 1881) (Norwegian skate)
  • Dipturus olseni (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1951) (spreadfin skate)
  • Dipturus oregoni (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1958) (hooktail skate)
  • Dipturus oxyrinchus (Linnaeus, 1758) (longnosed skate)
  • Dipturus pullopunctatus (J. L. B. Smith, 1964) (slime skate)
  • Dipturus queenslandicus Last, W. T. White & Pogonoski, 2008 (Queensland deepwater skate)
  • Dipturus springeri (J. H. Wallace, 1967) (roughbelly skate)
  • Dipturus stenorhynchus (J. H. Wallace, 1967) (prownose skate)
  • Dipturus teevani (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1951) (prickly brown ray)
  • Dipturus tengu (D. S. Jordan & Fowler, 1903) (acutenose skate)
  • Dipturus trachyderma (G. Krefft & Stehmann, 1975) (roughskin skate)
  • Dipturus wengi Séret & Last, 2008 (Weng's skate)
  • Dipturus wuhanlingi Jeong & Nakabo, 2008 (Wu's skate)

References
  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Dipturus in FishBase. October 2013 version.
  2. Last, P.R.; Weigman, S.; Yang, L. (2016). "Changes to the nomenclature of the skates (Chondrichthyes: Rajiformes)". In Last, P.R.; Yearsley, G.R. (eds.). Rays of the World: Supplementary Information. CSIRO Special Publication. pp. 11–34. ISBN 9781486308019.
  3. Last, P.R. & Alava, M. (2013): Dipturus amphispinus sp. nov., a new longsnout skate (Rajoidei: Rajidae) from the Philippines. Pp. 214-227 in: de Carvalho, M.R., Ebert, D.A., Ho, H.-C. & White, W.T. (eds.) : Systematics and biodiversity of sharks, rays, and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of Taiwan. Zootaxa, 3752 (1): 1–386.
  4. Francisco Concha; Janine Caira; David Ebert; Joost Pompert (1 May 2019). "Redescription and taxonomic status of Dipturus chilensis (Guichenot, 1848), and description of Dipturus lamillai sp. nov. (Rajiformes: Rajidae), a new species of long-snout skate from the Falkland Islands". Zootaxa. 4590 (5): 501–524. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
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