Biology:Prickly deepsea skate
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| Prickly deepsea skate | |
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| Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Class: | Chondrichthyes
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| Species: | B. asperula
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| Binomial name | |
| Brochiraja asperula (Garrick & Paul, 1974)
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The prickly deepsea skate, Brochiraja asperula, is a skate of the genus Brochiraja, found around New Zealand, at depths of from 200 to 1,300 m on the continental shelf. Their length is from 30 to 50 cm.
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). "Brochiraja asperula" in FishBase. February 2011 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN:0-00-216987-8
Wikidata ☰ Q4668196 entry
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