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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).

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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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.