Biology:Bathyraja taranetzi

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Short description: Species of fish

Mud skate
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Superorder: Batoidea
Order: Rajiformes
Family: Arhynchobatidae
Genus: Bathyraja
Species:
B. taranetzi
Binomial name
Bathyraja taranetzi
(Dolganov, 1983)
Synonyms
  • Rhinoraja taranetzi Dolganov, 1983

Bathyraja taranetzi, the mud skate, is a species of skate in the family Arhynchobatidae found in the north-western Pacific Ocean. [2]

Size

This species reaches a length of 70.0 cm (27.6 in).[3]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Anatoly Yakovlevich Taranetz (1910–1941), an expert on fishes of the far-eastern seas of the U.S.S.R..[4]

References

  1. Tribuzio, C.A., Ebert, D.A., Davis, C.D. & Orlov, A. (2015). "Rhinoraja taranetzi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T161600A80679159. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T161600A80679159.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/161600/80679159. Retrieved 21 December 2023. 
  2. McEachran, J.D. and K.A. Dunn, 1998. Phylogenetic analysis of skates, a morphologically conservative clade of elasmobranchs (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae). Copeia 1998(2):271-290.
  3. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Bathyraja taranetzi" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
  4. "Family ARHYNCHOBATIDAE Fowler 1934 (Softnose Skates or Longtail Skates)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 22 September 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/arhynchobatidae/. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5022691 entry