Species profile—Hexatrygon bickelli (sixgill stingray)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes) → Hexatrygonidae (sixgill stingrays) → Hexatrygon bickelli (sixgill stingray)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes)
- Family
- Hexatrygonidae (sixgill stingrays)
- Scientific name
- Hexatrygon bickelli Heemstra & Smith, 1980
- Common name
- sixgill stingray
- Type reference
- Heemstra, P.C. and Smith, M.M. (1980). Hexatrygonidae, a new family of stingrays (Myliobatiformes: Batoidea) from South Africa, with comments on the classification of batoid fishes. Ichthyol. Bull. J. L. B. Smith Inst. Ichthyol. 1-17.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 22644
- Synonym(s)
- Hexatrygon sp. A
- Conservation significant
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Dependant Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Marine
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=22644.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
