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A rare batoid fish Gymnura altavela (Chondrichthyes, Gymnuridae) captured in the Tyrrhenian Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2009

P.N. Psomadakis ,
M. Dalù ,
U. Scacco  and
M. Vacchi
P.N. Psomadakis*
Affiliation:
ICRAM, Istituto Centrale per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica Applicata al Mare, Via Casalotti 300, I-00166 Roma, Italy
M. Dalù
Affiliation:
ICRAM, Istituto Centrale per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica Applicata al Mare, Via Casalotti 300, I-00166 Roma, Italy
U. Scacco
Affiliation:
ICRAM, Istituto Centrale per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica Applicata al Mare, Via Casalotti 300, I-00166 Roma, Italy
M. Vacchi
Affiliation:
ICRAM, Istituto Centrale per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica Applicata al Mare, Via Casalotti 300, I-00166 Roma, Italy
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: P.N. Psomadakis, ICRAM, Istituto Centrale per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica Applicata al Mare, Via Casalotti 300, I-00166 Roma, Italy email: peterpsomadakis@inwind.it
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Abstract

The presence of Gymnura altavela in Italian waters is discussed on the basis of a specimen trawled in the coastal waters of Anzio (central Tyrrhenian Sea). The morphometry of our specimen is compared with data available in the literature and with some museological material of the 19th Century, which represent the only useful source of information for this species in the Italian seas. Never before, relevant data on the morphometry of Italian specimens of this species have been given to scientific literature.

Keywords

Gymnura altavelaGymnuridaemorphometryTyrrhenian SeaMediterranean
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Research Article
Information
Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 1 , January 2008 , e6
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2006

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