Beringraja binoculata
Description
Beringraja binoculata (Girard, 1855).
Big Skate. To 244 cm (96 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, at least as far west as Unalaska Island, to eastern Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to Cabo Falsa (22°54’N, 110°02’W), southern Baja California (Castro-Aguirre et al. 1993), and Gulf of California (Castro-Aguirre and Espinosa Pérez 1996). Benthic; depth: 2 m (5 ft) or less to at least 501 m (1,643 ft) (min.: Miller et al. 1980; max.: Farrugia et al. 2016). Reported, but not confirmed, to 523 m (1,715 ft) (NWFSC-FRAM). The often-cited deeper maximum depth of 800 m (2,624 ft) (e.g., Allen and Smith 1988) lacks documentation and should not be cited (Farrugia et al. 2016). Formerly Raja binoculata (Girard, 1855).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Rajidae
- Genus
- Beringraja
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rajiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Girard
- Species
- binoculata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Beringraja binoculata (Girard, 1855) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Castro-Aguirre, J. L., Schmitter, J. J. & Balart, E. F. (1993) Sobre la distribucion geographica de algunas peces bentonicos de la costa oeste de Baja California Sur, Mexico, con consideraciones ecologicas y evolutions. Anales de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologias de Mexico, 38, 75 - 102.
- 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.
- Miller, B. S., Simenstad, C. A., Cross, J. N., Fresh, K. L. & Steinfort, S. N. (1980) Nearshore fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages along the Strait of Juan de Fuca including food habits of the common nearshore fish. Interagency Energy / Environment R and D Program Report. EPA- 600 / 7 - 80 - 027.
- Farrugia, T. J., Goldman, K. J., Tribuzio, C. & Seitz, A. C. (2016) First use of satellite tags to examine movement and habitat use of big skates Beringraja binoculata in the Gulf of Alaska. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 556, 209 - 221. https: // doi. org / 10.3354 / meps 11842
- Allen, M. J. & Smith, G. B. (1988) Atlas and zoogeography of common fishes in the Bering Sea and northeastern Pacific. NOAA Technical Report NMFS, 66.