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Species of fish

Bathyraja maculata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Rajiformes
Family: Arhynchobatidae
Genus: Bathyraja
Species: B. maculata
Binomial name
Bathyraja maculata
Ishiyama & Ishihara, 1977

Bathyraja maculata, the white-blotched skate, is a species of skate from the western North Pacific Ocean. An adult is approximately 1 meter in length, and is found at depths of up to 1 kilometer. Unlike any other known member of the genus Bathyraja, the white-blotched skate has white blotches on a grey to brown dorsal surface, while the ventral side is lighter in color with darker blotches. Dorsal side is rough with spines, while the ventral side is smooth.

Range

The white-blotched skate is well established to inhabit waters in the Northern Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk and Aleutian Islands. It was the most commonly caught skate in a NOAA bottom-trawl survey of the Aleutian Islands in 2006. Initially thought to inhabit only the western margin of the Gulf of Alaska, trawl surveys have now found specimens along the eastern margin as well.

References

  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Bathyraja maculata". FishBase. November 2007 version.
  2. ZipcodeZoo.com. "Bathyraja maculata (White-Blotched Skate)". Archived from the original on February 6, 2012. Retrieved 2007-11-13.
  3. Ishiyama, Reizo; Hajime Ishihara. "Five New Species of Skates in the Genus Bathyraja from the Western North Pacific, with Reference to Their Interspecific Relationships". Japanese Journal of Ichthyology. 24 (2): 71–90.
  4. Rooper, C.N. (2008). Data Report: 2006 Aleutian Islands Bottom Trawl Survey. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-AFSC-179.
  5. Bizzarro, Joseph; Michael T. Vaughn (2008). "First records of the whiteblotched skate (Bathyraja maculata) in the Eastern Gulf of Alaska". Northwestern Naturalist. 89 (3): 193–197. doi:10.1898/NWN08-14.1.
Taxon identifiers
Bathyraja maculata
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