WoRMS

WoRMS name details

Raja circularis Couch, 1838

AphiaID

293390 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:293390)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (Basionym)

Accepted name

Leucoraja circularis (Couch, 1838)

Rank

Species

Parent

Raja Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Raja circularis Couch, 1838

Environment

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

Original description

Couch, J. (1838). A Cornish Fauna; Being a Compendium of the Natural History of the County, Intended to Form a Companion to the Collection in the Museum of the Royal Institution of Cornwall. Part I, Containing the Vertebrate, Crustacean, and a Portion of the Radiate Animals. Royal Institution of Cornwall, Truro, i–vi + 5–84 pp. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Raja circularis Couch, 1838. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=293390 on 2026-01-20

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-02-13 16:01:12Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2008-02-28 13:41:07Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Couch, J. (1838). A Cornish Fauna; Being a Compendium of the Natural History of the County, Intended to Form a Companion to the Collection in the Museum of the Royal Institution of Cornwall. Part I, Containing the Vertebrate, Crustacean, and a Portion of the Radiate Animals. Royal Institution of Cornwall, Truro, i–vi + 5–84 pp. [details]

basis of record Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]