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Bathyraja abyssicola

Description

Bathyraja abyssicola (Gilbert, 1896).

Deepsea Skate. To 157 cm (63 in) TL (Sheiko and Tranbenkova 1998). Southern Japan (Nakaya in Amaoka et al. 1983), Sea of Okhotsk (Dudnik and Dolganov 1992), western Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), and eastern Bering Sea as far north as 56°07’N, 169°07’W (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington),Aleutian Islands south of Tanaga Island (Zorzi and Anderson 1990), and north of Unalaska Island (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington), eastern Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), and northern British Columbia (Gilbert 1896), to Islas Coronados, northern Baja California (Zorzi and Anderson 1988); southern Gulf of California (Kuhnz et al. 2019); Islas Revillagigedo (Becerril-García et al. 2020); Isla Galápagos (Cerutti-Pereyra et al. 2018). Benthic; depth: 362–2,905 m (1,187 –9,525 ft) (min.: Zorzi and Anderson 1988 (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California); max.: Gilbert 1896 (Personal communication: National Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Washington, D.C.; 1,588 fm)).

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 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Gilbert, C. H. (1896) Appendix 6. The ichthyological collections of the steamer Albatross during the years 1890 and 1891. Report of the United States Fish Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1893, 19, 393 - 476.
  • Sheiko, B. A. & Tranbenkova, A. G. (1998) New for the Russian fauna and rare marine fishes from Kamchatka and the Kuril and Commander islands. In: Abstracts, All-Russian Conference on Problems in Fish Taxonomy, 17 - 19 November 1998, St. Petersburg, Russia, pp. 62 - 63 [In Russian.]
  • Amaoka, K., Nakaya, K., Araya, H. & Yasui, T. (Eds.). (1983) Fishes from the north-eastern Sea of Japan and the Okhotsk Sea off Hokkaido. Japan Fisheries Resource Conservation Association, Tokyo.
  • Dudnik, Yu. I. & Dolganov, V. N. (1992) Distribution and abundance of fish on the continental slopes of the Sea of Okhotsk and of the Kuril Islands during the summer of 1989. Journal of Ichthyology, 32 (9), 58 - 76.
  • Zorzi, G. D. & Anderson, M. E. (1990) Summary of records of the deep-water skates, Raja (Amblyraja) badia Garman, 1899 and Bathyraja abyssicola (Gilbert, 1896), in the eastern North Pacific, In: Pratt, Jr., H. K., Gruber, S. H. & Taniuchi, T. (Eds.), Elasmobranchs as living resources: advances in the biology, ecology, systematics, and the status of the sisheries. NOAA Technical Report NMFS, 90, pp. 389 - 390.
  • Zorzi, G. D. & Anderson, M. E. (1988) Records of the deep-sea skates, Raja (Amblyraja) badia Garman, 1899, and Bathyraja abyssicola (Gilbert, 1896) in the eastern North Pacific, with a new key to California skates. California Fish and Game, 74, 87 - 105.
  • Kuhnz, L. A., J. J. Bizzarro, J. J. & Ebert, D. A. (2019) In situ observations of deep-living skates in the eastern North Pacific. Deep-Sea Research Part 1, 152, 103104 https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. dsr. 2019.103104.
  • Becerril-Garcia, E. E., Hoyos-Padilla, E. M., Henning, B. & Salinas-De Leon, P. (2020) Sharks, rays, and chimaeras of the Revillagigedo National Park: an update of new and confirmed records. Journal of Fish Biology, 97, 228 - 1232. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jfb. 14457
  • Cerutti-Pereyra, F., Yanez, A. B., Ebert, D. A., Arnes-Urgelles, C. & Salinas-di-Leon, P. (2018) New record and range extension of the deepsea skate, Bathyraja abyssicola (Chondrichthyes: Arhynchobatidae), in the Galapagos Islands. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 30, 85 - 89.