WoRMS taxon details
Plesiobatidae Nishida, 1990
marine, terrestrial
Not documented
Description Indo-Pacific: off Mozambique, Hawaiian Islands, and possibly southern China. Nasal curtain incompletely united, not...
Description Indo-Pacific: off Mozambique, Hawaiian Islands, and possibly southern China. Nasal curtain incompletely united, not reaching the mouth. Maximum length 2.7 m. Family established by Nishida (1990) with the single species Plesiobatis daviesi, formerly assigned to the genus Urotrygon. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Plesiobatidae Nishida, 1990. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=148829 on 2025-09-23
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Nomenclature
basis of record
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> 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. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3882(1): 1-230., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 [details] Available for editors 
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Description Indo-Pacific: off Mozambique, Hawaiian Islands, and possibly southern China. Nasal curtain incompletely united, not reaching the mouth. Maximum length 2.7 m. Family established by Nishida (1990) with the single species Plesiobatis daviesi, formerly assigned to the genus Urotrygon. [details]
