Biology:Bathyraja matsubarai
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Short description: Species of fish
| Dusky-purple skate | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Superorder: | Batoidea |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Arhynchobatidae |
| Genus: | Bathyraja |
| Species: | B. matsubarai
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| Binomial name | |
| Bathyraja matsubarai (Ishiyama, 1952)
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Bathyraja matsubarai, the dusky-purple 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 126.0 cm (49.6 in).[3]
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist Kiyomatsu Matsubara (1907–1968), of the Imperial Fisheries Institute in Tokyo, who collected one of the paratypes at a fish market.[4]
References
- ↑ Dulvy, N.K., Dyldin, Y.V., Ebert, D.A., Herman, K., Ishihara, H., Jeong, C.-H., Semba, Y., Tanaka, S., Volvenko, I.V., Walls, R.H.L. & Yamaguchi, A. (2020). "Bathyraja matsubarai". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T161424A124482422. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T161424A124482422.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/161424/124482422. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
- ↑ 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 and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Bathyraja matsubarai" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ↑ "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 ☰ Q3758029 entry
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