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Rostroraja velezi

Description

Rostroraja velezi (Chirichigno, 1973).

Rasptail Skate. To 121 cm (47.6 in) TL (Soto-López et al. 2020).About Bahía San Juanico, southern Baja California (Robertson and Allen 2015) to west and southwest Gulf of California to Peru; Islas Galápagos and Malpelo (Robertson and Allen 2002). Benthic; depth: no deeper than 20 m (66 ft) and most probably 10 m (33 ft) or less (Joseph J. Bizzarro, unpubl. data) to 300 m (984 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002).

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Soto-Lopez, K., Ochoa-Baez, R. I., Galvan-Magana, F. & Oddone, M. C. (2020) Reproductive biology of the rasptail skate Rostroraja velezi (Rajiformes: Rajidae). Journal of Fish Biology, 98, 791 - 802.
  • Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.