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ocellate skate
Raja ackleyi Garman, 1881
Also calledraya ocelada (spa)
First described in: Garman, S. 1881. Report on the selachians. Reports on the results of dredging,. along the Atlantic coast of the United States during the summer of 1880, by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer “Blake,” Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S. N., commanding.---XII. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 3 8(11): 231-237.
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”.
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
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Raja ackleyi in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5216023.