Southern African skate biodiversity and distribution

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 80, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 125-145

  Compagno, Leonard J V ^a   Ebert, David A ^b  

^a Shark Research Center   (South Africa)

^b MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bathymetric and geographic distribution; Biodiversity; Rajidae; Southern Africa; Systematics; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; BIODIVERSITY; FISH; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

AMBLYRAJA; AMBLYRAJA TAAF; AMBLYRAJINI; ANACANTHOBATIS; ARHYNCHOBATINAE; BATHYRAJA; CRURIRAJA; DIPTURUS; GURGESIELLINI; LEUCORAJA; MALACORAJA; NEORAJA; OKAMEJEI; RAJA; RAJA STRAELENI; RAJELLA; RAJIDAE; RAJINAE; RAJINI; ROSTRORAJA; ROSTRORAJA ALBA;

EID: 34948821090     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-007-9243-4     Document Type: Article

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