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GBIF·2419752speciesAnimalia23 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classElasmobranchii
  4. ›orderTorpediniformes
  5. ›familyNarkidae
  6. ›genusCrassinarke
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IUCN VU · Vulnerable

Sleeper Torpedo

Crassinarke dormitor Takagi, 1951

Also calledネムリシビレエイ (jpn) · 堅皮單鰭電鰩 (zho) · 堅皮單鰭電鱝 (zho) · 睡電鱝 (zho) · 花痹 (zho) · 雷魚 (zho) · 電[魚本] (zho) · 電魴 (zho)

First described in: Takagi, K. 1951. Sur la nouvelle raie torpille, Crassinarke dormitor, gen. et sp. nov., appartenant a la sous-famille narkinée. Journal of the Tokyo University of Fisheries 38(1): 27-34.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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In the stacks

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Every page naming Crassinarke dormitor in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2419752.