What species is that?

Hobart_April2014Peter Last from CSIRO Hobart gave MFL postgraduate student Carolina Vargas-Caro expert advice on skate species identification.

Peter Last and John Stevens are authors of “Sharks and Rays of Australia

Carolina is working on the Chilean skate project.

The main objective of that project is to resolve population structure using genetics. The first essential step is to identify the species of skate in Chile.