Bathyraja matsubarai, the dusky-purple skate, is a species of skate in the family Arhynchobatidae found in the north-western Pacific Ocean.[2]
| Dusky-purple skate | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Arhynchobatidae |
| Genus: | Bathyraja |
| Species: | B. matsubarai
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| Binomial name | |
| Bathyraja matsubarai (Ishiyama, 1952)
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Size
editThis species reaches a length of 126.0 cm (49.6 in).[3]
Etymology
editThe 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
edit- ^ 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) - ^ 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.). "Bathyraja matsubarai". 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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