Aetobatus
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Aetobatus is a genus of fish
in the Myliobatidae family.
It contains the following species:
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
in the Myliobatidae family.
It contains the following species:
- Aetobatus flagellum (BlochMarcus Elieser BlochMarcus Elieser Bloch was a German medical doctor and naturalist. He is generally considered one of the most important ichthyologists of the 18th century.- Life :...
& J. G. SchneiderJohann Gottlob SchneiderJohann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider was a German classicist and naturalist.-Biography:Schneider was born at Collm in Saxony...
, 1801) (Longheaded eagle ray) - Aetobatus guttatus (G. ShawGeorge ShawGeorge Shaw was an English botanist and zoologist.Shaw was born at Bierton, Buckinghamshire and was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, receiving his M.A. in 1772. He took up the profession of medical practitioner. In 1786 he became the assistant lecturer in botany at Oxford University...
, 1804) (Sharpwing eagle ray) - Aetobatus narinari (EuphrasenBengt Anders EuphrasénBengt Anders Euphrasén was a Swedish botanist.Euphrasén graduated in Uppsala University in 1784....
, 1790) (Spotted eagle ray)
- Aetobatus ocellatus (KuhlHeinrich KuhlHeinrich Kuhl was a German naturalist and zoologist.Kuhl was born in Hanau. He became assistant to Coenraad Jacob Temminck at the Leiden museum. In 1817 he published a monograph on bats and in 1819 he published Conspectus psittacorum...
, 1823)