Broadnose skate
| Broadnose skate | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Rajidae |
| Genus: | Bathyraja |
| Species: | B. brachyurops |
| Binomial name | |
| Bathyraja brachyurops (Fowler, 1910) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Broadnose skate (Bathyraja brachyurops) is a species of skate in the family Rajidae. This fish occurs on 28 to 604 meters, mostly at depths shallower than 250 meters, from Valdivia and Estrecho de Magallanes to Argentina and the Falkland Islands. It has the maximum total length of about 125 centimeters which it reaches in about 20 years. Both sexes reach maturity at age 8–10 years.[2]
References
- McCormack, C., San Martin, M.J., Stehmann, M. & Lamilla, J (2007). "Bathyraja brachyurops". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
- ↑ Bailly, Nicolas (15 January 2008). "WoRMS taxon details Bathyraja brachyurops synonymised taxa". Retrieved 19 February 2010.
- ↑ Arkhipkin, A. I.; Baumgartner, N.; Brickle, P.; Laptikhovsky, V. V.; Pompert, J. H. W.; Shcherbich, Z. N. (2008). "Biology of the skates Bathyraja brachyurops and B. griseocauda in waters around the Falkland Islands, Southwest Atlantic". ICES Journal of Marine Science 65: 560–570. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsn015.
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