African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Dipturus pullopunctatus (Smith, 1964)

WoRMS taxon details

Dipturus pullopunctatus (Smith, 1964)

To FishBase images (<i>Raja pullopunctata</i>, South Africa, by Le Noury, P.)

To FishBase images (Raja pullopunctata, South Africa, by Le Noury, P.)

AphiaID

217389 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217389)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Dipturus Rafinesque, 1810

Original name

Raja pullopunctata Smith, 1964

Synonymised names

Dipturus pullopunctata (Smith, 1964) · unaccepted (misspelling)

Raia pullopunctata Smith, 1964 · unaccepted (misspelling)

Raja pullopunctata Smith, 1964 · unaccepted

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Raja pullopunctata Smith, 1964) Smith, J. L. B. (1964). Fishes collected by Dr. Th. Mortensen off the coast of South Africa in 1929, with an account of the genus Crurirajia Bigelow & Schroeder, 1954 in South Africa. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, Kjøbenhavn. v. 126: 283-300, Pls. 25-30. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Dipturus pullopunctatus (Smith, 1964). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217389 on 2025-05-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2002-01-02 17:49:40Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2008-02-28 13:41:07Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2013-01-08 11:20:45Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Raja pullopunctata Smith, 1964) Smith, J. L. B. (1964). Fishes collected by Dr. Th. Mortensen off the coast of South Africa in 1929, with an account of the genus Crurirajia Bigelow & Schroeder, 1954 in South Africa. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, Kjøbenhavn. v. 126: 283-300, Pls. 25-30. [details]

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

Ecology

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
English	blackspot skate [from synonym]	[details]

To Barcode of Life (17 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Raia pullopunctata Smith, 1964)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Raja pullopunctata Smith, 1964)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Dipturus pullopunctatus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Raja pullopunctata Smith, 1964)
To FishBase (from synonym Dipturus pullopunctata (Smith, 1964))
To FishBase (from synonym Raia pullopunctata Smith, 1964)
To FishBase images (Raja pullopunctata, South Africa, by Le Noury, P.) (from synonym Raja pullopunctata Smith, 1964)
To GenBank (21 nucleotides; 19 proteins) (from synonym Raja pullopunctata Smith, 1964)
To GenBank (21 nucleotides; 19 proteins)
To GenBank (21 nucleotides; 19 proteins) (from synonym Raia pullopunctata Smith, 1964)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS

From editor or global species database

To FishBase images (Raja pullopunctata, South Africa, by Le Noury, P.)

Hosted externally, from synonym