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Plesiozanobatus
Taxonomy
Plesiozanobatus was named by Marramà et al. (2020). Its type is Torpedo egertoni.
It was assigned to Zanobatidae by Marramà et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Zanobatidae by Marramà et al. (2020).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2020 | Plesiozanobatus Marramà et al. p. 1528 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| G. Marramà et al. 2020 | Pectoral disc large and roughly rounded, rep- resenting 56–70% TL; tail stout and short, distinctly demarcated from the disc; two dorsal fins and caudal fin present; densely, closely set small dermal denticles
forming a continuous pavement; large, rounded, scat- tered thorns covering the entire disc and tail; rostral car- tilage absent; nasal capsules laterally expanded without horn-like processes; long propterygia extending near the anterior margin of the disc; mesopterygium absent; about 65–75 pectoral radials; puboischiadic bar narrow and moderately arched; approximately 20 pelvic-fin rays; 80–90 vertebrae; about 10 pairs of ribs. |
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Wagner 2023, Carroll 1988 | |||||