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Bathyraja spinosissima
Description
Bathyraja spinosissima (Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941).
Pacific White Skate or White Skate. To 208 cm (81.9 in) TL (David Ebert, pers. comm. to M.L.). Patchily reported from the eastern Bering Sea (56°08’N, 169°19’W) (Orr et al. 2019b), Port Waldport, Oregon (Ebert 2003), Mexican mainland at Sinaloa (Castro-Aguirre and Espinosa Pérez 1996), and southern Gulf of California (Kuhnz et al. 2019); Isla del Cocos, Costa Rica (Beebe and Tee-Van 1941); Islas Galápagos (Ebert 2003). Benthic; depth: 800–2,938 m (2,624 –9,637 ft) (min.: Ebert 2003; max.: Pearcy et al. 1982).
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 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Arhynchobatidae
- Genus
- Bathyraja
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rajiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Beebe & Tee-Van
- Species
- spinosissima
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bathyraja spinosissima (Beebe, 1941) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Orr, J. W., Stevenson, D. E., Hanke, G., Spies, I. B., Boutillier, J. A. & Hoff, G. R. (2019 b) Range extensions and new records from Alaska and British Columbia for two skates, Bathyraja spinosissima and Bathyraja microtrachys. Northwestern Naturalist, 100, 37 - 47. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / nwn 18 - 21
- Ebert, D. A. (2003) Sharks, Rays, and Chimaeras of California. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Castro-Aguirre, J. L. & Espinosa Perez, H. (1996) Listados faunisticos de Mexico. VII. Catalogos sistematico de Las Rayas y especies afinines de Mexico. Universidad Nacional Autotoma de Mexico.
- 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.
- Pearcy, W. G., Stein, D. L. & Carney, R. S. (1982) The deep-sea benthic fish fauna of the northeastern Pacific Ocean on Cascadia and Tufts abyssal plains and adjoining continental slopes. Biological Oceanography, 1, 375 - 428.