Taxonomy
The first specimens of the yellow shovelnose stingaree were collected by the Taiwanese ship FV Hai Kung during the winter of 1981, when it was conducting exploratory fishery surveys off Western Australia. The ray was provisionally identified as Trygonoptera "sp. A" before being formally described by Peter Last and Gordon Yearsley in a 2008 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) publication. The specific epithet is derived from the Latin galbus ("yellow"), in reference to its coloration. The type specimen is a 33 cm (13 in) long adult male caught off the Houtman Abrolhos. This species is closely related to the western shovelnose stingaree (T. mucosa).
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