Dusky-purple skate
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
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 north-western Pacific Ocean. [2]

Size

This species reaches a length of 126.0 cm (49.6 in).[3]

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.[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 matsubarai". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T161424A124482422. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T161424A124482422.en. Retrieved 21 December 2023.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  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; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Bathyraja matsubarai" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
  4. 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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