Morphological and Molecular Evidence Reveals the Longnose Skate (Marini, 1933) to be a Senior Synonym of Concha, Caira, Ebert & Pompert 2019.

Longnose skates have great economic importance in South American fisheries, and in order to preserve them, it is important to have a well-defined taxonomic status of their species. was recently described for Malvinas Islands waters based on morphological and molecular comparisons with . Although has been compared with several congeneric species, it was not properly compared with the morphologically similar , the most abundant longnose skate in the Southwest Atlantic.

Almost a century of oblivion: Integrative taxonomy allows the resurrection of the longnose skate Zearaja brevicaudata (Marini, 1933) (Rajiformes; Rajidae).

Zearaja chilensis has been reported from Southern Brazil in the Southwest Atlantic (SWA) to northern Chile in the Southeast Pacific (SEP), and it was listed as vulnerable by the IUCN. Recent molecular studies have called into question the conspecificity between specimens from these opposite coasts of South America, which can have implications for the conservation status of the species. To verify the identity of specimens identified as Z.