TY - JOUR
T1 - First record of abnormal cephalic horns in the California bat ray Myliobatis californica
AU - Ramírez-Amaro, Sergio R.
AU - González-Barba, Gerardo
AU - Galván-Magaña, Felipe
AU - Cartamil, Daniel
PY - 2013/1
Y1 - 2013/1
N2 - The first case of abnormal cephalic horns in the California bat ray, Myliobatis californica was found in one male juvenile specimen caught in a gillnet by artisanal elasmobranch fishermen on the west coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico. The specimen had three cephalic horns, two in the cephalic lobes zone and one in the rostral middle zone which could be indicative of a morphogenetic plasticity in these taxa that may have facilitated the evolution of rhinopterid and mobulid species from a common myliobatid ancestor with a similar role of feeding in Mobulidae and Rhinopteridae subfamilies.
AB - The first case of abnormal cephalic horns in the California bat ray, Myliobatis californica was found in one male juvenile specimen caught in a gillnet by artisanal elasmobranch fishermen on the west coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico. The specimen had three cephalic horns, two in the cephalic lobes zone and one in the rostral middle zone which could be indicative of a morphogenetic plasticity in these taxa that may have facilitated the evolution of rhinopterid and mobulid species from a common myliobatid ancestor with a similar role of feeding in Mobulidae and Rhinopteridae subfamilies.
KW - Mexico
KW - Myliobatis
KW - batoids
KW - cephalic horns
KW - malformation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84904967045&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S1755267213000146
DO - 10.1017/S1755267213000146
M3 - Artículo
SN - 1755-2672
VL - 6
JO - Marine Biodiversity Records
JF - Marine Biodiversity Records
M1 - e24
ER -