Bathyraja taranetzi
| Mud skate | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Arhynchobatidae |
| Genus: | Bathyraja |
| Species: | B. taranetzi
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| Binomial name | |
| Bathyraja taranetzi (Dolganov, 1983)
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Bathyraja taranetzi, the mud skate, is a species of skate in the family Arhynchobatidae found in the north-western Pacific Ocean. [2]
Size
[edit]This species reaches a length of 70.0 cm (27.6 in).[3]
Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ 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. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ 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.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Bathyraja taranetzi". FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family ARHYNCHOBATIDAE Fowler 1934 (Softnose Skates or Longtail Skates)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
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