Bathyraja matsubarai

Dusky-purple skate
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Superorder:	Batoidea
Order:	Rajiformes
Family:	Arhynchobatidae
Genus:	Bathyraja
Species:	B. matsubarai
Binomial name
	Bathyraja matsubarai; (Ishiyama, 1952)
Synonyms
	Breviraja matsubarai Ishiyama, 1952;

Bathyraja matsubarai, the dusky-purple skate, is a species of skate in the family Arhynchobatidae found in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. [1]

Size

This species reaches a length of 126.0 cm (49.6 in).[2]

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.[3]

References

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; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Bathyraja matsubarai" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family ARHYNCHOBATIDAE Fowler 1934 (Softnose Skates or Longtail Skates)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 4 May 2023.

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[1] 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.

[2] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Bathyraja matsubarai" in FishBase. February 2015 version.

[ETYFish-3] Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family ARHYNCHOBATIDAE Fowler 1934 (Softnose Skates or Longtail Skates)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 4 May 2023.