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Bathyraja microtrachys
Description
Bathyraja microtrachys (Osburn & Nichols, 1916).
Fine-spined Skate. To at least 91 cm (35.8 in) TL (Ebert et al. 2017). Southwest of Tofino, Vancouver Island (48°35’N, 126°53’W) (Orr et al. 2019b) to about central Baja California (300 miles southeast of San Diego, southern California) (Ebert 2003); Gulf of California (Kuhnz et al. 2019). Benthic; depth: 1,126 –3,322 m (3,693 –10,896 ft) (Kuhnz et al. 2019).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Arhynchobatidae
- Genus
- Bathyraja
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rajiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Osburn & Nichols
- Species
- microtrachys
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bathyraja microtrachys (Osburn, 1916) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Ebert, D. A., Bigman, J. S. & Lawson, J. M. (2017) Biodiversity, Life History, and Conservation of Northeastern Pacific Chondrichthyans. In: Larson, S. E. & Lowry, D. (Eds.), Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 77. Academic Press, Oxford, pp. 9 - 79.
- 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.
- 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.