Bathyraja taranetzi
Bathyraja taranetzi, the mud skate, is a species of skate in the family Arhynchobatidae found in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. [1]
| Mud skate | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Superorder: | Batoidea |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Arhynchobatidae |
| Genus: | Bathyraja |
| Species: | B. taranetzi |
| Binomial name | |
| Bathyraja taranetzi (Dolganov, 1983) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Size
This species reaches a length of 70.0 cm (27.6 in).[2]
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of Anatoly Yakovlevich Taranetz (1910–1941), an expert on fishes of the far-eastern seas of the U.S.S.R..[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 taranetzi" 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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