Broadnose skate
| Broadnose 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. brachyurops
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| Binomial name | |
| Bathyraja brachyurops (Fowler, 1910)
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Broadnose skate (Bathyraja brachyurops) is a species of skate in the family Arhynchobatidae. 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 centimetres (49 in) which it reaches in about 20 years. Both sexes reach maturity at age 8–10 years.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Pollom, R.; Dulvy, N.K.; Acuña, E.; Bustamante, C.; Charvet, P.; Chiaramonte, G.E.; Cuevas, J.M.; Herman, K.; Paesch, L.; Pompert, J.; Velez-Zuazo, X. (2021) [errata version of 2020 assessment]. "Bathyraja brachyurops". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T63111A200320565. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T63111A200320565.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ Bailly, Nicolas (2008). "Bathyraja brachyurops (Fowler, 1910)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 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 (4): 560–570. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsn015.
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