Biology:Bathyraja tzinovskii

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Short description: Species of fish

Creamback skate
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Superorder: Batoidea
Order: Rajiformes
Family: Arhynchobatidae
Genus: Bathyraja
Species:
B. tzinovskii
Binomial name
Bathyraja tzinovskii
Dolganov, 1983

Bathyraja tzinovskii, the creamback skate, is a species of skate in the family Arhynchobatidae found in the western Pacific Ocean. [2]

Size

This species reaches a length of 69.0 cm (27.2 in).[3]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of oceanographer Vladimir Diodorovich Tzinovskiy of the P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Moscow, who collected the holotype specimen.[4]

References

  1. 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 tzinovskii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T161444A124486488. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T161444A124486488.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/161444/124486488. 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 tzinovskii" 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 ☰ Q5022448 entry