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Bathyraja trachura

Description

Bathyraja trachura (Gilbert, 1892).

Black Skate or Roughtail Skate. To 94 cm (37 in) TL (Winton et al. 2014). Sea of Okhotsk and northern Kuril Islands to Cape Navarin, western Bering Sea, Commander–Aleutian Chain, and eastern Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to off Ensenada (31°30’N, 118°08’W), northern Baja California (Ruiz-Campos et al. 2010); north of Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California (Castro-Aguirre and Espinosa Pérez 1996); mid–Gulf of California (Kuhnz et al. 2019). Benthic; depth: at least as shallow as about 300 m (984 ft) (Joseph J. Bizzarro) to 2,900 m (9,512 ft) (Last et al. 2016).

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

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References

  • Winton, M. V., Natanson, L. J., Kneebone, J., Cailliet, G. M. & Ebert, D. A. (2014) Life History of Bathraja trachura from the eastern Bering Sea, with evidence of latitudinal variation in a deep-sea skate species. Journal of the Marine Biology Association United Kingdom, 94, 411 - 422. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / s 0025315413001525
  • Ruiz-Campos, G., Castro-Aguirre, J. L., Balart, E. F., Campos-Davila, L. & Velez-Marin, R. (2010) New specimens and records of chondrichthyan fishes (Vertebrata: Chondrichthyes) off the Mexican Pacific coast. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 81, 363 - 371.
  • 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.
  • Last, P. R., Naylor, G. J. P. & Manjaji-Matsumoto, B. M. (2016 a) A revised classification of the family Dasyatidae (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes) based on new morphological and molecular insights. Zootaxa, 4139, 345 - 368. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4139.3.2