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WoRMS taxon details

Hexatrygonidae Heemstra & Smith, 1980

AphiaID

148836 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148836)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Myliobatiformes

Direct children (2)

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Genus Hexatrygon Heemstra & Smith, 1980
Genus Hexatrematobatis Chu & Meng, 1981 accepted as Hexatrygon Heemstra & Smith, 1980

Environment

marine, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Heemstra, P. C.; Smith, M. M. (1980). Hexatrygonidae, a new family of stingrays (Myliobatiformes: Batoidea) from South Africa, with comments on the classification of batoid fishes. Ichthyological Bulletin of the J. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology. No. 43: 1-17. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Hexatrygonidae Heemstra & Smith, 1980. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=148836 on 2025-06-25

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-03-29 13:34:27Z

created

Claus, Simon

2015-04-17 08:48:21Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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Nomenclature

original description Heemstra, P. C.; Smith, M. M. (1980). Hexatrygonidae, a new family of stingrays (Myliobatiformes: Batoidea) from South Africa, with comments on the classification of batoid fishes. Ichthyological Bulletin of the J. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology. No. 43: 1-17. [details]

basis of record Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa. 3882(1): 1-230., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 [details] Available for editors