| Longnose deep-sea skate | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Superorder: | Batoidea |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Arhynchobatidae |
| Genus: | Bathyraja |
| Species: | B. shuntovi |
| Binomial name | |
| Bathyraja shuntovi Dolganov, 1985 | |
The longnose deep-sea skate (Bathyraja shuntovi) is a large skate in the family Arhynchobatidae. It was first described in 1985 from specimens collected near New Zealand.[2] It is known to be a deep-water skate, however lack of research trawls at depths past 1500 meters limits knowledge of the depths where the species can be found. The species is dark brown or grey, with an eponymous elongated snout. The species has been measured to be a maximum of 140 cm in total length, although size variation and growth patterns are not known.[3]
Etymology
The skate was named in honor of Vyacheslav P. Shuntov (b. 1937), who was the chief scientist of the Pacific Institute of Scientific Fisheries and Oceanography Center in Vladivostok, where the author was working at the time.[4]
Conservation status
The New Zealand Department of Conservation has classified the longnose deep-sea skate as "Not Threatened" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.[5]
References
- ↑ Finucci, B.; Kyne, P.M. (2018). "Bathyraja shuntovi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T161382A116737942. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T161382A116737942.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ↑ Iglésias, Samuel Paco; Lévy-Hartmann, Lauriana (2012). "Bathyraja leucomelanos, a new species of softnose skate (Chondrichthyes: Arhynchobatidae) from New Caledonia". Ichthyological Research. 59 (1): 38–48. doi:10.1007/s10228-011-0254-y. S2CID 16019044.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2018). "Bathyraja shuntovi" in FishBase. Jan 2018 version.
- ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order RAJIFORMES (Skates)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ↑ Duffy, Clinton A. J.; Francis, Malcolm; Dunn, M. R.; Finucci, Brit; Ford, Richard; Hitchmough, Rod; Rolfe, Jeremy (2016). Conservation status of New Zealand chondrichthyans (chimaeras, sharks and rays), 2016 (PDF). Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Conservation. p. 9. ISBN 9781988514628. OCLC 1042901090.