Biology:Rio skate
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Short description: Species of cartilaginous fish
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Superorder: | Batoidea |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Arhynchobatidae |
| Genus: | Rioraja Whitley, 1939 |
| Species: | R. agassizii
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| Binomial name | |
| Rioraja agassizii (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841)
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The Rio skate (Rioraja agassizii) is a shallow water skate native to the Atlantic coast of South America from Brazil to southern Argentina. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Rioraja.
Named in honor of zoologist-geologist Louis Agassiz[1]
References
- ↑ "Order RAJIFORMES : Family ARHYNCHOBATIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 22 September 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/rajiformes/.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). "Rioraja agassizii" in FishBase. February 2011 version.
Wikidata ☰ Q4667996 entry
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