''Dipturus lamillai'' is a species of long-snout skate of the genus

Dipturus ''Dipturus'' is a large genus of skates native to the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. They were formerly included in ''Raja''. Some species initially moved to ''Dipturus'' were later placed in ''Dentiraja'', ''Spiniraja'', and '' Zearaja''. ...

. It was first described in 2019 after it was found in waters near the Falkland Islands in the southwest Atlantic Ocean. The population had previously been recorded as ''

Zearaja chilensis ''Zearaja'' is a small genus of skates in the family Rajidae. It currently consists of four described species found in oceans off New Zealand, Tasmania and southern South America. Species There are four species in the genus: * '' Zearaja a ...

'', the Chilean yellow-nosed skate, but had been suspected to be a separate

cryptic species In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related organisms that are so similar in appearance and other features that the boundaries between them are often unclear. The taxa in the complex may be able to hybridize readily with each oth ...

, one that looks identical to another species but has distinct genetic information. It was named in honour of

Julio Lamilla Julio Francisco Lamilla Gómez (1954 – 31 March 2016) was a Chilean biologist, researcher and conservationist. Lamilla was a former student of Liceo Armando Robles Rivera in Valdivia before graduating from the Austral University of Chile Au ...

, a Chilean biologist.

References

Dipturus Fish described in 2019 Fish of the Atlantic Ocean Fauna of the Falkland Islands {{rajiformes-stub