Family Plesiobatidae Nishida 1990
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Plesiobatididae Nishida 1990:98 [ref. 19783] (family) Plesiobatis [stem changed to Plesiobat- by Eschmeyer 1998:2451 [ref. 23416], confirmed by Compagno 1999:37 [ref. 25589] and by Nelson 2006:77 [ref. 32486]]