Breviraja nigriventralis, commonly known as the blackbelly skate, is a bathydemersal[2] species of ray in the family Rajidae. It is found in the western Atlantic Ocean, in depths of 549 – 776 meters (about 1,800 - 2,550 feet). Male blackbelly skates can grow up to 40 centimetersin length.[2]
| Breviraja nigriventralis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Rajidae |
| Genus: | Breviraja |
| Species: | B. nigriventralis
|
| Binomial name | |
| Breviraja nigriventralis McEachran & Matheson, 1985
| |
References
edit- ^ Crysler, Z.; Kyne, P.M.; Navia, A.F.; Lasso-Alcalá, O.; Mejía-Falla, P.A.; Herman, K. (2020). "Breviraja nigriventralis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T161422A124482032. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T161422A124482032.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ a b "FishBase - Breviraja nigriventralis - McEachran & Matheson, 1985". FishBase. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
- Eol.org Retrieved on February 8, 2011.
- Compagno, Leonard J. V. and Hamlett, William C., ed. (1999). Checklist of Living Elasmobranchs Sharks, Skates, and Rays: The Biology of Elasmobranch Fishes. Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore: USA. ISBN 0-8018-6048-2.
- McEachran, John D., and Katherine A. Dunn. (1998). "Phylogenetic Analysis of Skates, a Morphologically Conservative Clade of Elasmobranchs" (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae). Copeia, vol. 1998, no. 2. pp. 271–290. ISBN/ISSN 0045-8511.M
 | This Rajiformes article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |