Understanding our marine species and how they have evolved provides information on managing our marine biodiversity.
Rays of the World is the first illustrated guide to the world's stingrays, skates, electric rays and sawfishes since the first ray was described by Linnaeus, the founder of modern taxonomy, in 1758.
We set the standard for identifying and consistently labelling fishes and seafood to assist industry and consumers.
In 1934, a scientist called H. Rutherfurd collected a new shark specimen in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. Rutherfurd could not have known it then, but he had just collected the last known example of a species which now appears to have been lost to science.
Through a multi-group investigation based around northern Australia, we've identified a new species, one of the largest known stingrays.
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