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Rhinobatos schlegelii The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T104005557A104006031
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Aetobatus narutobiei The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T104021947A104021988
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Dipturus tengu The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161354A124470688
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Myliobatis tobijei The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161357A124471213
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Scymnodon ichiharai The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161363A124472202
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Dipturus gigas The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161393A124476574
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Triakis scyllium The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161395A124476903
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Squalus brevirostris The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161438A124485434
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Galeus longirostris The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161473A124491550
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Okamejei meerdervoortii The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161487A124494332
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Hemitriakis japanica The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161507A124497048
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Centroscyllium ritteri The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161508A124497279
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Galeus nipponensis The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161567A124508145
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Parmaturus pilosus The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161581A124510063
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Cirrhoscyllium japonicum The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161606A124513884
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Gymnura japonica The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161630A124518082
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Pristiophorus japonicus The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161634A124518986
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Okamejei kenojei The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161645A124520681
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Tetronarce tokionis The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161676A124526644
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Heterodontus japonicus The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161714A124532497
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Dipturus macrocauda The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161738A124536099
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Centroscyllium excelsum The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161740A124536451
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Cephaloscyllium umbratile The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T169232956A124533854
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Apristurus fedorovi The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T44210A124430360
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Telatrygon acutirostra The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T60147A124444795
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Hemitrygon akajei The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T60148A104113935
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Hemitrygon izuensis The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Hemitrygon izuensis – published in 2021
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Squatina nebulosa The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161325A134193576
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Apristurus japonicus The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161367A124472828
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Squatina japonica The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161558A134194013
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Okamejei acutispina The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161636A124519140
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Oxynotus japonicus The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T44206A124429948
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Somniosus pacificus The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T161403A887942
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Rhinoraja odai The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T161742A124536777
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Bathyraja trachouros The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T161701A124530553
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Beringraja pulchra The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T161669A124525206
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Bathyraja fedorovi The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T161623A124517037
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Notoraja tobitukai The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T161605A124513660
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Bathyraja violacea The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T161594A80676330
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Rhinoraja longicauda The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T161575A124509549
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Rhinoraja kujiensis The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T161534A124501763
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Hongeo koreana The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T161483A124493295
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Bathyraja diplotaenia The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T161462A124489862
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Bathyraja tzinovskii The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T161444A124486488
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Bathyraja matsubarai The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T161424A124482422
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Bathyraja andriashevi The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T161372A124473576
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Bathyraja (Arctoraja) sexoculata sp. nov., a new softnose skate (Rajiformes: Arhynchobatidae) from Simushir Island, Kuril Islands (western North Pacific), with special reference to geographic variations in Bathyraja (Arctoraja) smirnovi. Zootaxa, 4861(4), 515–543
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Updating the scientific names of Japanese batoids [in Japanese]. Report of Japanese Society for Elasmobranch Studies, 55, 55–63
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Species accounts: Aetobatus narinari, Manta birostris In Fowler, S.L., Cavanagh, R.D., Camhi, M., Burgess, G.H., Cailliet, G.M., Fordham, S.V., Simpfendorfer, C.A. and Musick, J.A.(comp. and Ed.). Sharks, Rays and Chimaeras: The Status of the Chondrichthyan Fishes. Status Survey. IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: 354–357
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First record of the porcupine ray, Urogymnus asperrimus (Bloch et Schneider, 1801) from Japan. I.O.P. Diving News, 15(8), 2–7
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Grouping of sharks based on the location of gill slits-systematics position of the family Alopiidae [in Japanese], Report of Japanese Society for Elasmobranch Studies, 38, 7–13
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Record of a white-spotted guitarfish from the main island of the Ryukyu Archipelago. Report of Japanese Society for Elasmobranch Studies, 35, 1–7
The Bull Shark, Carcharhinus leucas (Valenciennes, 1841), from the Usumacinta River, Tabasco, Mexico, with notes on its serum composition and osmolarity. Ciencias Marinas, 24(2), 183–192
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Occurrences of an adult female individual of the six-gill stingray in the shallow water of the Ohshima Island, Izu Islands, Japan [in Japanese], Report of Japanese Society for Elasmobranch Studies, 34, 17–19

Comments on the record of a sawfish in the Aragusuku Island, Japan [in Japanese], Report of Japanese Society for Elasmobranch Studies, 33, 1–5
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